FilterStringAsync() returns instance?

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#1

I have a textbox screen GUI, and whenever the player types something on it and presses enter, it fires the server to send that message to a surface GUI text label.

RS.TextBoard.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, text)
	local filteredText = ""
	local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
		filteredText = textService:FilterStringAsync(text, player.UserId)
	end)
	if not success then
		warn('Error filtering text "', text, '": ', errorMessage)
		filteredText = "Failed to filter message."
	end
	print(filteredText)
	script.Parent.Text = filteredText
end)

Filtered text just returns the word “Instace”

I read another topic on this and I tried changing :FilterStringAsync() with :GetNonChatStringForBroadcastAsync() but that just printed a warning saying that GetNonChatStringForBroadcastAsync is not a valid member of textservice.

#2

Read: FilterStringAsync. It returns a TextFilterResult which then you call one of the get methods from to get the string with an appropriate level of filtering. You don’t call it directly from TextService.

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#3

And how exactly do I do that? Also what does RTFM mean?

#4

There’s a code sample at the bottom of the page. FilterStringAsync returns a TextFilterResult, then you call a method from that result.

local filterResult = TextService:FilterStringAsync(...)
local filteredText = filterResult:GetNonChatStringForBroadcastAsync()

Second thing is irrelevant plus Google exists for that. It’s somewhat crude wording so I changed it to “read” instead. It’s an acronym regarding your questions already being answerable if you just read the documentation for the functions you were using or did some debugging.

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Help with text filtering
#5

Okay thanks! I changed it to this:

RS.TextBoard.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, text)
	local filteredText = ""
	local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
		filteredText = textService:FilterStringAsync(text, player.UserId)
	end)
	if not success then
		warn('Error filtering text "', text, '": ', errorMessage)
		script.Parent.Text = "Failed to filter message."
	else
		local filteredString = filteredText:GetNonChatStringForBroadcastAsync()
		script.Parent.Text = filteredString
	end
end)

I tested it but the text filter doesn’t seem to be doing it’s job.

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It prints no errors.

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#6

Text filtering is disabled in Studio. You need to test in an online environment.

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