I feel like this is making the task more complicated than it needs to be. It’s just much cleaner using standard getters/setters IMHO:
local Board = {}
Board.__index = Board
function Board.new()
local self = setmetatable({}, Board)
return self
end
function Board:GetName()
-- Fetch the name
if (not self.Name) then
self.Name = -- Whatever you need to do to fetch the name via HTTP
end
return self.Name
end
function Board:SetName(name)
-- Set the name
self.Name = name
-- Then push the name via HTTP
end
Obviously though the above code is not “thread-safe” per-se, since self.Name might be in an in-between state where the HTTP service is fetching or setting the name.