Logging kicks inside a datastore

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#1

I know that there are several other posts about this but i couldn’t read any help out of these, so i am trying to achieve something that logs a kick into a datastore, which means i’d have to insert a table into a datastore table, the problem is that i don’t know how to do this.

    --Script above is not important.
	else
		local LogsTable
		local LogsTemplate = {[os.date('%c',os.time())] = "Invoked AdminFunction without the matching permission."}
		local Success,ErrorMessage = pcall(function()
			LogsTable = KicklogDatastore:GetAsync(KicklogKey.. Player.UserId)
		end)
		if Success then
			if LogsTable then
				table.insert(LogsTable,#LogsTable+1,LogsTemplate)
				local Success,ErrorMessage = pcall(function()
					KicklogDatastore:SetAsync(KicklogKey..Player.UserId,LogsTable)
				end)
				if not Success then
					warn("Error: "..ErrorMessage)
				end
			elseif not LogsTable then
				local Success,ErrorMessage = pcall(function()
					KicklogDatastore:SetAsync(KicklogKey..Player.UserId,LogsTemplate)
				end)
				if not Success then
					warn("Error: "..ErrorMessage)
				end
			end
		elseif not Success then
			warn("Error: "..ErrorMessage)
		end
		Player:Kick("\nClient tried to invoke a RemoteFunction which the client has no access to.\n\n[ These actions have been logged ]")
	end
end

I was thinking of fetching the datastore and if the datastore has data that it will insert with table.insert() LogsTemplate into the datastore, but i have read alot that it would cause datastore errors using table.insert, i don’t know any other way of doing this.

#2

Use getAsync to retrieve the table, add the value to the local table, update the datastore.

Do that, also, you forgot to make sure if the previous datastore IS a table.

Edited: I posted too soon.

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#4

There is a special function for tables when it comes to adding and removing. I do however suggest that you use metamethods and metables instead as they have more control.

Setting Data:

local testTable = {} -- empty table

table.insert(testTable, #testTable + 1, {PlayerName = Player.Name, banTimeInSeconds = 50})

KicklogDataStore:SetAsync(plr.UserId, testTable)

Retrieving Data:

local data = KicklogDataStore:GetAsync(Player.UserId)

if data  and  typeof(data) == 'table' then
if data[Player.Name] then
Player:Kick("You are banned.")
end

I do suggest using UpdateAsync instead but for this post I don’t want to go to in depth.

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#5

Works perfectly, thanks.

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