I’m having trouble adding a new dict to a pre-existing save in a datastore… So this is what I’m doing:
local Data = {}
table.insert(Data, GetData) --2022 data
table.insert(Data, DefaultTable) --2023 data
pcall(function()
ActivityData:SetAsync(Player.UserId, Data) --setting it
end)
When doing this, the datastore changes to this:
When really that “1)” and “2)” shouldn’t be there… How would I remove that?
Btw, this is what it should look like:
To set a key and value inside a dictionary, you would just do:
local t = {}
t.index = "value"
print(t.index) --> prints `value`
In your case, you would set the year as the key:
local data = {}
data[year] = <data>
table.insert inserts items into a table like an array.
you can use next() to get the index(year) and value(2023 data)
so to have the table {[2023] = something, [2023] = something}, I’d do this
local data = {}
table.insert( data, next(GetData) )
table.insert( data, next(DefaultTable) )
next returns the next (or first in this case), key and value, so it’s the same as inputting the 2023 and the 2023 data into table.insert
That isn’t an error but a warning, saying that next() can return multiple values which could break table.insert(). In this situation it won’t.
But table.insert() is for arrays, so that doesn’t make any sense. You have to do what HugeCoolboy2007 said.
local data = {}
data["2022"] = GetData
data["2023"] = DefaultTable
Or like this
local data = {}
data["2022"] = GetData["2022"]
data["2023"] = DefaultTable["2023"]
-- or
function mergeDicts(a, b)
for k,v in b do
a[k] = v
end
end
local data = {}
mergeDicts(data, GetData)
mergeDicts(data, DefaultTable)
I’m not quite sure what structures GetData and DefaultTable have
to mask that, you could probably save each next(someTable) to variables
local index, value = next(someTable)
also, @ketrab2004, table.insert does work in dictionaries
DefaultTable:
Looks like that.
And GetData is the same thing but something like this (example)
local DefaultTable = {
[”2022”] = {
[“January”] = {
[”5”] = {
["ItemsSold"] = 5,
["CommandsUsed"] = 5,
["Hours"] = 5,
["Minutes"] = 5,
["Seconds"] = 5
},
[”6”] = {
["ItemsSold"] = 5,
["CommandsUsed"] = 5,
["Hours"] = 5,
["Minutes"] = 5,
["Seconds"] = 5
}
},
[“March”] = {
[”5”] = {
["ItemsSold"] = 5,
["CommandsUsed"] = 5,
["Hours"] = 5,
["Minutes"] = 5,
["Seconds"] = 5
},
[”6”] = {
["ItemsSold"] = 5,
["CommandsUsed"] = 5,
["Hours"] = 5,
["Minutes"] = 5,
["Seconds"] = 5
}
}
}
}
I didn’t know that you could choose a key/pos like that, but as you can see it’s for arrays.
In that case you could do either
The second would be more dynamic.
With this, I can just save data to the DataStore and it wouldn’t do the “1)” and “2)” thing, correct?
This:
pcall(function()
ActivityData:SetAsync(Player.UserId, data)
end)
Yes, but you would have to replace "2023" with
for it to work next year.
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