GetService or FindService?

[DasKairo (Cairo)]

I was messing around with DataModel and i stumbled across FindService, it appears to do the exact same thing as GetService with only one difference, if the Service isn’t found, it will error, but with GetService, it creates a Service if it doesnt exist, so:

game:GetService() or game:FindService()?

FindService
GetService

game:GetService("Workspace") -- Creates new if Service not found

game:FindService("Workspace") -- Errors if Service not found

[TheSai_ki (CIover)]

Your question has already been answered here:

Difference between FindService() and GetService()?

As it has been stated in this thread, :FindService will only return the service if it exists, although :GetService does the same thing, it will create the service if it doesn’t already exist. Normally there are a few services that are already existing on run which may be retrieved by :FindService so I made a list of:

Services that exist at runtime

Service Exists on the Server Exists on the Client <a href="https://developer.roblox.com/api-reference/class/Workspace">Workspace&l…

[DasKairo (Cairo)]

Woops, I forgot that I made this topic, I was going to say that I found this but I was focused on other things, thanks tho

[TheSai_ki (CIover)]

I think that :FindService() Might be depreciated, but hasn’t been labeled as so officially yet.

[xDeltaXen]

GetService will create a service that doesn’t exist. FindService will not.