Creating a custom NetworkTable?

[Peter Johnson]

Originally Posted by jcbaker4050

As far as the table creation, I work with databases in my 8-5, so in my mind, a table doesn't exist unless you create it explicitly. Kind of funny how experience can help determine perspectives.

Tables in NetworkTables are a convention to help organize keys into logical groupings by using "/" as a separator; the actual NetworkTables key namespace is flat. Tables themselves don't really exist (except as an object in your code to keep track of the table path for convenience sake), so it's not actually necessary to create or delete them.

For example, getTable("/").putNumber("foo/bar", 5) and getTable("/foo").putNumber("bar", 5) are exactly equivalent (both set the key "/foo/bar" to 5).