errors and warnings / stdlib / E8020

E8020 error

saved.bind on a SavedVariable not declared in the manifest

area: stdlib (x8xxx)
fails the build: yes

saved.bind names a SavedVariable that the manifest doesn't declare. The game only saves variables that the TOC lists, and wowlua writes the TOC from addon.saved-variables and addon.saved-variables-per-character, so this data would never be saved.

Add the name to one of the two lists in wowlua.json, or fix its spelling.

Example

× failswowlua

import * as saved from "wowlua:saved"local db = saved.bind("MyAddonDB", { version = 1, defaults = { scale = 1 } })print(db)

✓ compileswowlua.jsonjson

{    "package": { "name": "playground", "version": "0.1.0", "wowlua": "^0.13" },    "flavors": { "camelot": {} },    "addon": { "saved-variables": ["MyAddonDB"] }}

src/main.wowluawowlua

import * as saved from "wowlua:saved"local db = saved.bind("MyAddonDB", { version = 1, defaults = { scale = 1 } })print(db)

The compiler reports it like this:

error[E8020]: `MyAddonDB` is not declared in `addon.saved-variables` or `addon.saved-variables-per-character`
  ┌─ src/main.wowlua:2:23
  │
2 │ local db = saved.bind("MyAddonDB", { version = 1, defaults = { scale = 1 } })
  │                       ^^^^^^^^^^^ not in the manifest

code	message
E8102	`saved.bind` name is not a string literal
E8103	SavedVariable bound twice with `saved.bind`

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terminal

$ wowlua explain E8020
E8020 (error): saved.bind on a SavedVariable not declared in the manifest

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