MessagingService table contents are nil only on BindToClose

[flashlink12 (Flashlink)]

Hi, I’m trying to do a simple server hub system using only MessagingService, it mostly works but I got stuck on the part of deleting the servers.

Hub code:

MessagingService:SubscribeAsync("ServerShutdown", function(serverEncoded: ServerInfo)    
    print("Got new servershutdown event")
    print(serverEncoded)
    print(serverEncoded.code)

    local server = HttpService:JSONDecode(serverEncoded)
    
    print(server)
    print(server.code)
    
    local index = ServerToIndex[server.code]
    
    local NewServers = table.clone(Servers:get())
    table.remove(NewServers, index)
    
    ServerToIndex[server.code] = nil
    
    Servers:set(NewServers)
    
    print("Should be done!")
end)

Server code:

if not RunService:IsStudio() then
    game:BindToClose(function()
        MessagingService:PublishAsync("ServerShutdown", HttpService:JSONEncode({
            code = ServerCode,
        }))

        task.wait(10)
    end)
end

The problem here is that when the server is closing (and only then, all other events work normally), the message gets to the hub but server.code is nil, I have checked and the table does exist. Since I can’t test the game on Roblox studio I have written simple code to get the contents of the table on the console, but that ends up printing nothing.

for _, v in pairs(server) do
       print(v)
end

[bg9]

what is ServerCode defined as? have you tried making sure it exists prior to sending the ServerShutdown message?

[flashlink12 (Flashlink)]

Yes, it does exist, it is defined on runtime but when that code runs it is already defined. I also tested if it wasn’t a problem with the variable by setting code to a static value and that did not work either.

[bg9]

what happens if you just send the code as a string instead of json?

[flashlink12 (Flashlink)]

It does work, the problem with the old code might be the time HttpService takes to encode the table as a json.

[flashlink12 (Flashlink)]

Considering that I am not sure how one could proceed to sending a table over MessagingService when the server is about to close.