JSONDecode not working

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#1

JSONDecode isn’t working for me, whenever I try to access something with it, it always returns nil.

First I made sure that it was returning the correct thing. With local test = game.HttpService:GetAsync("http://adatabaseurl.atopdomain/getPoints?userid=66932798") print(test) Returns [{"Points":1234}]
To return the data from the online server, I am using JSON.stringify() in node.js.

If I attempt to print the points with
local test = game.HttpService:GetAsync("http://adatabaseurl.atopdomain/getPoints?userid=66932798") local test2 = game.HttpService:JSONDecode(test) print(test2.Points) it returns nil.

Is there something wrong with the formatting of the JSON causing it to return nil?

#2

if this is the data the server is returning, you have an array full of dictionaries. To access points in this scenario, you’d need to put test2[1].Points.

If you’re using express for the server, use response.json(your_object_here) to serve the correct JSON, ensuring you’ve not wrapped the object in an array

[] indicates an array, {} indicates a dictionary.