UpdateAsync takes the key that you want to update and requires you to put a callback function.
The description says that the callback function would then set the new value.
That means if I want to update a value, I would have to set something that is like a global variable that the function uses to replace the current value with.
Otherwise the current way I find ideal, just purely as an example, newValue would be something else and not like that how it is in the code.
local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local success, updateData, keyInfo = pcall(function()
local newValue = "test"
return DataStoreService:GetDataStore("test"):UpdateAsync("testData", function(currentData, keyInfo)
print(currentData, keyInfo)
local userIDs = keyInfo:GetUserIds()
local metadata = keyInfo:GetMetadata()
return newValue, userIDs, metadata
end)
end)
if success then
print(keyInfo.CreatedTime)
print(keyInfo:GetMetadata())
print(DataStoreService:GetDataStore("test"):GetAsync("testData"))
end
Because this function let’s me pass the new value within that pcall instead of having to put it somewhere else.
Let me know if this way is totally fine. I don’t see an issue with it. Or would SetAsync be fine with it too? I heard that it should be used only if you want to force change something, apparently UpdateAsync seems to update the actual updated value, I think.