Can't get table from server for some reason

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Below is my script. The print inside the function works but the method itself returns nil, why is that?


local function requestPlotState()
	local connection
	connection = plotStateHandler.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(plotStateLol)
		print(plotStateLol)
		connection:Disconnect()
		return plotStateLol
	end)
	plotStateHandler:FireServer()
end

print(requestPlotState())
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You are returning plotStateLol in a different function. You need to return it in the requestPlotState function and not in the function connected to the remote function.
Like this:

local function requestPlotState()
	local connection
        local toReturn;
	connection = plotStateHandler.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(plotStateLol)
		print(plotStateLol)
		connection:Disconnect()
		toReturn = plotStateLol
	end)
   
	plotStateHandler:FireServer()
    plotStateHandler.OnClientEvent:Wait()
   while not toReturn do task.wait() end
    return toReturn
end

print(requestPlotState())
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I tried that earlier, but now I realize I wasn’t waiting until returnMe was not nil. It works now, thank you for your help :slight_smile:

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No problem! I would also suggest instead of using remote events, this would be a perfect situation to use a RemoteFunction instead, as it will wait for the server to respond and is more performant than the code above.