Being able to save VIP server maps

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#1

Hi guys, in my game players are able to build custom maps/builds in vip servers and I would like to add an admin command to be able to save their map using Datastore.

Using this thread for reference, I’m aware I can come up with a string table and store it in a key. However, I’m concerned about data limits.

So I came up with an idea: to somehow split the data that goes over the character limit and store them into multiple keys, as many as needed. Then I can store the key names in a set datastore.

This is what I came up with:

VIPMapDataStore = game:GetService('DataStoreService'):GetDataStore('VIPMaps'),
DataToStore = {'assume', 'this', 'is', 'a', 'really', 'long', 'table', 'that', 'exceeds', 'data/character', 'limit'}

FunctionThatFiguresOutHowToSplitTableIntoMultipleTablesThatRespectsDataLimits()
local Tables = {}
-- ??????
return Tables
end

local Tables = FunctionThatFiguresOutHowToSplitTableIntoMultipleTablesThatRespectsDataLimits()
local Keys = #Tables
for i = 1,#Tables do
	local String = 
	VIPMapDataStore:SetAsync(game.PrivateServerId..'Key'..i, Tables[i]) -- Should I be worried about data failing to save? Wrap it pcall?
end
VIPMapDataStore:SetAsync(game.PrivateServerId..'Keys', Keys)

Loading it from here is easy, I’m just worried about the saving.
Is this an efficient way to do this? If so, how would I split the table into multiple tables that respect the limits? What is the limit?

If there’s a better way to do this, I’m open to that too.
I’m not willing to pay a 3rd party to store this data.

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#2

You may shorten as much as possible to fasten it, this is relative to how much data you must store but can always come handy, also avoid saving useless values.

#3

Before running the line of code saving the parts, you’d need to make sure the server is a private server. You can do this by running this line of code right before the saving.

if game.PrivateServerId ~= "" then

end
#4

This doesn’t answer my question at all. I’m asking about “FunctionThatFiguresOutHowToSplitTableIntoMultipleTablesThatRespectsDataLimits()”, more specifically, what the data limits are and how I could split a single table into multiple tables (only if it exceeds the limit) that respect the data limits.

From there, I can save the tables and easily load them.

I know how to tell a VIP server from one that isn’t a VIP server.

#5

So you are trying to split the “DataToStore” into multiple parts or tables?

#6

Save parts and properties into a table → Calculate whether I need to split the table into multiple, depending on if it exceeds the data limits → Save the table(s) → Save the amount of tables

The part in bold is what I’m having difficulty with.

In order to load the map, I would just:
Get how many tables were saved → Load those keys → Create new parts with the properties from the table(s)