Table to JSON Issues

[Oswaulde]

Table to JSON Issues

I am having issues with my code. I wish to make a discord webhook, which worked earlier. My primary issue is trying to ignore " using backslash (\). You can review my script here:

local data = 
    {
        ["content"] = "",
        ["embeds"] = {
            ["title"] = playerN.Name,
            ["author"] = {
                ["Name"] = context.Executor.Name,
            },
            
            ["description"] = "\"".. Chat:FilterStringForBroadcast(reason, context.Executor) .."\"",
        },
    }

local newdata = HttpService:JSONEncode(data)
print(newdata)
HttpService:PostAsync(WebhookURL,newdata)
return "Success!"

JSON Data (that was printed in the output)

You can also review the encoded JSON data here:

{"embeds":{"description":"\"exploiting\"","title":"PhosilioQuinnley","author":{"Name":"PhosilioQuinnley"}},"content":""}

Error printed in Output

The error message can be found here:

Expected Outcome

You may view the expected outcome:

I appreciate that you took the time to read this query and I’ll be interested to see what you have to make of it.

[RakNetProtocol]

The webhook url is possibly invalid, this error occurs normally when roblox cannot access the url that you give

[Oswaulde]

It isn’t because the main issue is the description, I’m fairly sure. I’ll test it again though to make sure.

[Asinphi]

Your structure is invalid for Discord. Remember that embeds should be a list of embeds, where each embed object is a dictionary. You have it set to a dictionary when it should be a list of dictionaries. If you only want a message with a single embed, it would be a list with one dictionary in it that is the embed object.

Another thing: the Name key in the embed dictionary should not be capitalized; it should be lowercase.

local data = 
    {
        ["content"] = "",
        ["embeds"] = { -- Should be a list of dictionaries which are embed objects, not a dictionary itself
            { -- Made this into a list with a single embed
               ["title"] = playerN.Name,
                ["author"] = {
                    ["name"] = context.Executor.Name -- Should be lowercase
                },
            
                ["description"] = "\"".. Chat:FilterStringForBroadcast(reason, context.Executor) .."\""
            }
        }
    }

[RakNetProtocol]

400 Bad Request response status code indicates that the server cannot or will not process the request due to something that is perceived to be a client error (e.g., malformed request syntax, invalid request message framing, or deceptive request routing).

I was thinking of 404 Not Found, embeds is meant to be a list

[Oswaulde]

You have solved it. That was the problem all along. Thanks a lot, you have helped me and I’ll be able to apply this in the future for when I use JSON encoding again. A lot of people didn’t know how it was done, so thanks again!