[Answered] Handling HTTP Request data

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1

Hello, after creating a HTTP Get request my api returns the following data:
[{"playerID":55,"money":436,"bounty":1}]

I used the decodeJSON function to turn this into a table.
After doing so, I tried to print out the result by doing :
print(data.playerID)

(data being the decoded table)
This seems to return ‘nil’ however rather than returning the playerID (55).
I have tried this numerous times and it keeps on returning nil.

I can’t seem to work out why it does this? Does anyone have experience with handling the result?

2

Can you show the code snippet where you decode it?

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3

It looks to me like you return an array containing an object.
Try doing print(data[1].playerId), the [1] represents that you want the first item within the array.
Pretty much this is what data looks like after you used JSONDecode:

{
  {
    playerId: 55
    money: 436,
    bounty: 1
  }
}
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@Polyheximal

Can you show the code snippet where you decode it?

 function decodeJson(json) 
    local jsonTab = {} pcall(function ()     
       jsonTab = HttpService:JSONDecode(json)     
    end) return jsonTab     
 end

@SimplyData

It looks to me like you return an array containing an object.
Try doing print(data[1].playerId) , the [1] represents that you want the first item within the array.

It prints it out after I choose to print data[1]

5

The code on the backend is handled to return a JSON array so this would make sense. I do this incase of any errors. Obviously since in this case there we none it just returned the results.

6

No worries, you can either update your API to return something like this

{
    "success": true,
    "data": {
        "playerId": "yourId",
        "money": 500,
        "bounty": 1
    }
}

and check if success is true, or you just change your data variable to local data = decodeJson(response)[1] (or whatever it looks like for you)

7

I will probably do that as it makes error handling more consistent. Thanks for your help guys…