Storing something in a table and then printing after prints 'nil'

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#1

So I store old properties of a BasePart to reset after, but it presents a problem:

table.insert(RoundResetInfo, {
	base,
	{
		BrickColor = base.BrickColor,
		Material = base.Material,
		Transparency = base.Transparency,
		CanCollide = base.CanCollide
	}
}) -- Storing old properties to reset

-- Printing it afterwards somewhere
print(game:GetService("HttpService"):JSONEncode(RoundResetInfo[index][2])) 
-- This prints:
{"CanCollide":true,"BrickColor":null,"Material":null,"Transparency":0.1500000059604644775390625}  -  Server - Round:197

Thank you for reading!

#2

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Both BrickColor and Material do not fit the criteria, so they will become null. You should translate them to string before converting them to JSON.

#3

My problem is that they’re also nil in the original table, when I print:

print(RoundResetInfo[index][2].BrickColor) > nil

Meanwhile the table’s like this:

{base, {
           BrickColor = base.BrickColor,
           Material = base.Material,
           Transparency = base.Transparency,
           CanCollide = base.CanCollide
}}
#4

It may have something to do with the key name conflicting with Roblox’s API’s default globals (BrickColor is a Roblox global and you’re using it as the key in the dictionary when it should’ve been a string)

Try something like:

{
  ['BrickColor'] = base.BrickColor
}