Help with text filtering

[duskdevelops]

Im trying to make a text filtering module, but everytime it returns my playerID, does anyone know why?

local TextService = game:GetService("TextService")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

local module = {}

function module:Filter(ogText, playerId)
	local filteredText = ogText
	
	local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
		filteredText = TextService:FilterStringAsync(ogText, playerId)
		return filteredText
	end)
	
	return filteredText
end

return module

[hasoco (Kenpachi Zaraki)]

Can you show where the module function is being called?

[duskdevelops]

local function filterAllResults()
	for i,v in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
		local PlayerId = game.Players:GetUserIdFromNameAsync(tostring(v))
		
		_G.finishedStuff[v].prompt = textFilter.Public(_G.finishedStuff[v].prompt, PlayerId )
		for ii, vv in pairs(_G.finishedStuff[v].story) do
			vv = textFilter.Public(vv)
		end
	end
end

[hasoco (Kenpachi Zaraki)]

There’s no textFilter:Filter() function there?

[duskdevelops]

oh sorry i was editing the code and forgot to change it back to how it was-- the .Public is the :Filter()

[hasoco (Kenpachi Zaraki)]

@duskdevelops

local TextService = game:GetService("TextService")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

local module = {}

function module:Filter(ogText, playerId)
	local filteredText = ogText
	
	local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
		filteredText = TextService:FilterStringAsync(ogText, playerId)
		return filteredText
	end)
	
	return filteredText
end

return module

Maybe change this to:

local TextService = game:GetService("TextService")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

local module = {}

function module:Filter(ogText, playerId)
	local filteredText = ogText
	
	local success, result = pcall(function()
		filteredText = TextService:FilterStringAsync(ogText, playerId)
		return filteredText
	end)
	
    if success then
         return result
    else
         return filteredText
    end
end

return module

[duskdevelops]

its still returns my player ID

[hasoco (Kenpachi Zaraki)]

@duskdevelops

vv = textFilter.Public(vv)

Maybe because this has no user id??

[duskdevelops]

once again, i was editing the code and forgot to change it back to how it was

[duskdevelops]

ok progress! Now its returning an Instance named Instance

[hasoco (Kenpachi Zaraki)]

I think this post explains why it returns an instance

FilterStringAsync() returns instance?

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 function…

[duskdevelops]

it filters everything. I thought it worked because when I tested it was filtered, but because it uses rich text to make it have colors (or I think that’ought to be the reason) it censors everything no matter what

[aezpheria (kylie)]

local TextService = game:GetService("TextService")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

local module = {}

function module:Filter(ogText, Player) -- # Instead of sending Player UserID Send the Player Instance.
	local filteredText = ogText
	
	local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
		filteredText = TextService:FilterStringForBroadcast(ogText, Player)
		return filteredText
	end)

   if not success then warn("Had issues filtering message. " .. errorMessage) reutrn end
	
	return filteredText
end

return module

Try this, I haven’t had any issues when using FilterStringForBroadcast.