Datastore is confusing me

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Hello! And I am having trouble with Datastore. I have a couple of questions about it.

When you save the value’s parent does it save the value also?
What is the maximum Datastore value?
What does pcall do?

Please respond!

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Hello!

  1. Data Stores can save only value types (Strings, Objects, Integers and so on). This means that you need to save every sing value you want specifically instead of listing a parent of all the values.

  2. You can read about limits on data stores here. Essentially they are quite prone to errors. Limits include how long a data store key is, how many data variables you can have and the amount of characters you can have.

  3. Pcalls are used to handle errors, they allow a script to know is something like a save or load failed. This allows the script to re-try the action later on and alert the user.

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Thanks for responding! It helped.

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local file = nil --please note that further up in this script a data store was declared.
	
local returned, data = pcall(function() --using this function won't cause the script to stop
file = DS:GetAsync(plr.UserId)
end)
	
if returned == false then -- this variable will be false if there is an error
--handle your error here
end

Here is an example of a pcall

6

Oh. Ok! I know what you meaned.

7

?? What do you mean? I don’t get it.

8

What exactly is confusing you?

9

Nevermind. I was just looking into Datastore2. It is very advanced and better.