Userdata

What is a Userdata?

A userdata is the type Lua uses for data structures in the underlying C program. There are no native Lua functions for handling those types, they must be handled via Metatables. All Roblox objects and events are userdata Lua type.

Using Userdatas

You can create a new userdata by passing true to the undocumented newproxy function. This userdata cannot be used for anything other than invoking functions via its metatable.

Example

local ud = newproxy(true) -- new userdata with an empty metatable
getmetatable(ud).__index = {Foo = "Bar"} -- index metamethod
print(type(ud), ud.Foo)

Output:
userdata: 0x631fc8	Bar