The title is exactly how it looks. How would I go about saving tools with ProfileService? I tried many things and they don’t seem to work and I’m very frustrated with it.
What type of saving are you trying to do?
What tools are you trying to save?
What is ProfileService?
I wasn’t trying to be specific because I have a lot to say, but decided that I don’t want to overflow with information. But here goes:
Ok so I have a shop where you purchase bats. When the player has enough Gold it’s supposed to save the tool name in a table. Here is the code I have tried:
local Template = {
Gold = 250,
Emeralds = 0,
Kills = 0,
Level = 1,
XP = 100,
MaxXP = 100,
Bats = {}
}
So this code will save the “Bats” table.
Next I will check if the player has enough stats:
function module.CheckBatInfoForPurchase(plr, Toolname, price, spd, dmg)
local data = module:Get(plr)
if plr then
for i, v in pairs(module.BatInfo) do
if v.batName == Toolname and v.Price == tonumber(price) and v.attackRate == tonumber(spd) and v.Damage == tonumber(dmg) then
print("Joe mama")
Toolname = v.batName
price = v.Price
spd = v.attackRate
dmg = v.Damage
if plr.leaderstats.Gold.Value >= price then
local bat = getBat(Toolname)
plr.leaderstats.Gold.Value -= price
table.insert(data.Bats, Toolname) -- This causes the error
print(data.Bats)
end
end
end
end
end
Error:
ServerScriptService.ServerModules.MainModule:406: invalid argument #1 to 'insert' (table expected, got number)
As you can see “data.Bats” will return an int value and not a table, but originally in the “Template” I put a table.
Have you tried printing data?
Printing tables will only work if you turn off log mode in the output window.
Yes. Data will print all of the stats and for some reason the “Bats” table is just a straight int value not a table.
Can I see the module:Get() function?
function module:Get(plr)
local profile = Profiles[plr]
if profile then
return profile.Data
end
end
The profiles table is just a table of all the players data. and Profiles[plr] retrieves all the data in the "Template" tablePrint every time you use the table and see where it turns into an int
Wait scratch that. It turns to int when joining as well.
print(profile.Data.Bats)
This will return “0”
One more thing when printing “profile.Data” it will return this:
{
["Bats"] = 0,
["Emeralds"] = 0,
["Gold"] = 4991000,
["Kills"] = 0,
["Level"] = 1,
["MaxXP"] = 100,
["XP"] = 100
}
As you can see “Bats” is no longer a table and is now an int value. I hate this so much and I’m so confused.
This is pretty weird, tables turning into ints, what method are you using to store the table? Are you using instances like NumberValue and StringValue?
also, what is ProfileService? I have never heard of it and knowing about it might help solve the problem
Ok basically I’m storing any values inside a table then updating the value every time its changed. For example the “Teplate” Table:
local Template = {
Gold = 250,
Emeralds = 0,
Kills = 0,
Level = 1,
XP = 100,
MaxXP = 100,
Bats = {}
}
These values will be sent to every player in a form of a folder, and then it will save. I thought since “Bats” was a table it will just save.
So you said the values will be sent in a folder?
Here is a possible way to store bats as a table:
Yeah Im currently attempting this as well. When a player buys a bat Im gonna parent a string value into the plr. After that I checked BatsFolder.ChildAdded then inserted the child’s name into the “Bats” table. I don’t know how to save things inside a table though.
finally, something I can write a script for!
function getDataTable(folder)
local out = {}
for _, p in pairs(folder:GetChildren()) do
if p:isA("Folder") then
out[p.Name] = getDataTable(p)
else
out[p.Name] = p.Value
end
end
return out
end
function setDataTable(table) -- untested
local out = Instance.new("Folder")
for i, v in pairs(table) do
if typeof(v) == "table" then
local newFolder = setDataTable(v)
newFolder.Name = i
newFolder.Parent = out
elseif typeof(v) == "string" then
local newValue = Instance.new("StringValue")
newValue.Name = i
newValue.Value = v
newValue.Parent = out
elseif typeof(v) == "number" then
local newValue = Instance.new("NumberValue")
newValue.Name = i
newValue.Value = v
newValue.Parent = out
end
end
return out
end
outputs:
{
["Bats"] = {
["bat1"] = "Papier-mâché bat",
["bat2"] = "baseball bat",
["bat3"] = "big bat"
},
["Emeralds"] = 0,
["Gold"] = 0,
["Kills"] = 0,
["Level"] = 0,
["MaxXP"] = 0,
["XP"] = 0
}
No this isn’t my problem. My problem is saving tools with the data given. When a player joins I want to take the data from the “Bats” table and make a string value out of it. Here is my attempt, but the values inside the table will not save.
local BatsFolder = Instance.new("Folder", plr)
BatsFolder.Name = "BatsFolder"
Profiles[plr] = profile
BatsFolder.ChildAdded:Connect(function(child)
table.insert(profile.Data.Bats, child.Name)
end)
for i, v in pairs(profile.Data.Bats) do
local str = Instance.new("StringValue", BatsFolder)
str.Name = v
end
That’s because when you add the string values, they are named “StringValue” by default. Set the name before the parent, then they will save.
Write a failsafe.
if typeof(data.Bats) ~= 'table' then
data.Bats = {};
end
Nevermind I got it to work. Eventually I just rewrote my code to make it cleaner and it worked. I just kept the same code and it worked… Weird, but it works. I just stored a table in the Template called “Bats” and then inserted the string value into the table when they buy a bat. It saves when they join back too.
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