How to disconnect a connection inside the connection itself?

[GamingChris1000 (CheeseAddict)]

Hey, I was trying to mess around with connections today and today I tried to disconnect a connection inside the connection itself, but it still won’t disconnect

I tried connection:Disconnect() and connection = nil, but it will still print “testing”

My code:

If you have any solutions, please share! Thanks in advance =)

[dotinfo]

Not shown in the script however how it is usually done is by having local Connection outside of the scope.

I am in no way a good scripter however to make sure you could start with using :Disconnect() and then Connection = nil

If everything is done correctly that should work, always does for me at least

[TheBrainy06 (Brain)]

you could do this:

local connection do
  connection = humanoid.StateChanged:Connect(...)
    ...
    connection:Disconnect()
    connection = nil
  end)
end

[darkvrn]

Theres many different methods you could use to disconnect functions
In the case of the code you shown, a simple way you could disconnect would be

humanoid.Jumping:Connect(function()
	local cn
	cn = humanoid.StateChanged:Connect(function)
		--your code here
		cn:Disconnect()
	end)
end)

If you had alot of connections and wanted to disconnect them in bulk in an efficient manor you could do something like this, using a table

local conn = {}

--if your script is in a serverscript this + the functions will need to be in a PlayerAdded event (so you can get Player)
conn[Player] = {}

conn[Player][#conn[Player] + 1] = humanoid.StateChanged:Connect(function)
	--your code here
end)

--then use this loop to disconnect all of them
--if this is used in a server script slap it in a PlayerRemoving event (outside of the PlayerAdded event)
for i, connect in pairs(conn[Player]) do
	connect:Disconnect()
	conn[Player][i] = nil
	if #conn[Player] <= 0 then
		conn[Player] = nil
	end
end

Of course if it was only a client sided script you can just store the functions in the table without the player parts.

[Xacima (Yui)]

Here is an example of how to disconnect a connection inside the connection itself:

local event = game.ReplicatedStorage.MyEvent
local connection

connection = event.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player)
    print(player.Name .. " has triggered the event.")

    -- Check some condition to determine if the connection should be disconnected
    if someCondition then
        connection:Disconnect() -- Disconnect the connection
    end
end)

In this example, a connection is established between the MyEvent event and a function that is triggered when the event is fired on the server. Inside the function, a condition is checked to determine if the connection should be disconnected. If the condition is met, the Disconnect() method is called on the connection object to disconnect the connection.

By using the Disconnect() method inside the connection itself, you can easily disconnect the connection based on certain conditions or criteria.

[JarodOfOrbiter]

You want ‘testing’ to not print? Disconnecting the event only stops the event from firing again, it won’t stop the event currently running. You can add return like so

connection:Disconnect()
connection = nil
return

[GamingChris1000 (CheeseAddict)]

Ohh, I never knew that, so a connection that was disconnected will still run, but not run again?

[Prototrode (Vernumerator)]

If the connection is meant to immediately disconnect after a single event with no exceptions, you can just use :Once() instead.

event.OnServerEvent:Once(function(player)
    --do stuff
end)
--automatically disconnected and don't have to worry about memory leaks since the connection is anonymous