How to load array with datastore?

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#1

Hello. I made a table that tables should be in that table and I saved that with encode and I don’t know how to load them when I load normally it prints [{“Taken”:true,“Date”:“1/3/2021”,“Artist”:“SpecialTimeGaming”,“ID”:6185839475,“Name”:null}]
and I exactly don’t know what to do to make it a table

#2

Dictionaries are formatted this like

local newDictionary = {
     ["A value with a space"] = "Hello there",
     aValueThatDoesntHaveASpace = "This is the DevForums"
     aNumberValue = 4,
     aBoolValue = false,
}

And arrays are formatted like this

local newArray = {"Hello There", 5, false}

What you have saved is a dictionary, and to my knowledge, that can’t be turned into an array

#3

If you are talking about using JSONEncode you can use

local array = "[{“Taken”:true,“Date”:“1/3/2021”,“Artist”:“SpecialTimeGaming”,“ID”:6185839475,“Name”:null}]"
local httpService = game:GetService("HttpService")
local decodedTable = httpService:JSONDecode(array)
#4

I am saving something like this :

local SavedPainting = {
Name = painting.Name,
ID = script.Value.Value,
Taken = true,
Date = pretty_date(os.date(“!*t”, now)),
Artist = player.Name
}

And i saved it with :
table.insert(toload, SavedPainting)
print(toload)
DataStore:SetAsync(“ArtIDSave”, game:GetService(“HttpService”):JSONEncode(toload))

And when i load it gives me that and i want it to load it as a table

#5

To decode JSONEncode effected tables, use HttpService:JSONDecode() on the array.

#6

Also the datastore is global Now what?

#7

it gives me Can’t parse JSON error

#8

Try running

print(typeof(data))

and if it doesn’t say “string” then use tostring(data) and then decode it

#9

i tried
local array = “[{“Taken”:true,“Date”:“1/3/2021”,“Artist”:“SpecialTimeGaming”,“ID”:6185839475,“Name”:null}]”

local httpService = game:GetService(“HttpService”)

–local decodedTable = httpService:JSONDecode(array)

print(typeof(tostring(array)))
and it printed “string”

#10

Oh wait give me a second i didnt understood you fully

#11

i tried :

local array = "[{“Taken”:true,“Date”:“1/3/2021”,“Artist”:“SpecialTimeGaming”,“ID”:6185839475,“Name”:null}]"

local httpService = game:GetService("HttpService")

local something = typeof(tostring(array))

print(typeof(tostring(array)))

local decodedTable = httpService:JSONDecode(something)

and it printed “string”

then it gives me an error that said Can’t parse JSON

#12

Try

local something = tostring(array)

instead, as at the moment ‘something’ will just equal “string” even though we want it to equal the JSON data

#13

still Can’t parse JSON

Please help me!!!