Why this text filtering doesn't work?

[rumixist]

Hello, I tried to make a string filtering system for my game. My goal is making a function that returns a bool value. If this string filtering to playes this bool value should be true else bool value should be false

The issue is the bool value is always true. I think I made a mistake in one of scripts. Btw I don’t know how to use filtering systems and I didn’t find a good tutorial on youtube.

Here is scripts:

First script is a local script inside StarterGui/ComputerGui/Background

local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local TextService = game:GetService("TextService")
local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer

local function textFiltered(text)
	return game.ReplicatedStorage.FilterStringFunction:InvokeServer(text)
end

local function onKeyPress(input)
	if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Return and script.Parent.BoxFrame.TextBox.Text ~= ""  then
		script.Parent.TuturialFrame.Visible = false
		local texttofilter = script.Parent.BoxFrame.TextBox.Text
		
		if textFiltered(texttofilter) then
			print("text filtered")
		else
			game.ReplicatedStorage.SendMessageEvent:FireServer(script.Parent.BoxFrame.TextBox.Text)
			script.Parent.BoxFrame.TextBox.Text = ""
			wait(0.35)
			script.Parent.BoxFrame.TextBox:CaptureFocus()
		end
	end
end

UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(onKeyPress)

Also there is remote function inside replicated storage

This is other script in ServerScriptService

local TextService = game:GetService("TextService")
local FilterStringFunction = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").FilterStringFunction
FilterStringFunction.OnServerInvoke = function(player, text)
	return TextService:FilterStringAsync(text, player.UserId, Enum.TextFilterContext.PublicChat) ~= text
end

Why this function always returns true. Btw I don’t want filtered. I need a function that returns is this string filtered string or not but I don’t know how to make this also I tried here.

Also this is my first topic.

[Katrist]

Filtering doesn’t work in studio, make sure to test ingame. If it still doesn’t work, tell me.

[rumixist]

Yes, it doesn’t work in game. I looked the output in developer console. The output is always “text filtered”. One of scripts print that output

[RobloxPlayer_9384 (somerandomperson)]

Why isn’t roblox filtering the chat itself? Doesn’t roblox automatically filter the chat whether you have a script or not?

[rumixist]

This filtering system for another thing not chat. I tried to make a game that you can speak with AI. You can type your message in textbox so I need a filtering system to prevent bad words.

[Katrist]

Change your server script to this:

local TextService = game:GetService("TextService")
local FilterStringFunction = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").FilterStringFunction

local function getTextObject(message, fromPlayerId)
	local textObject = nil
	
	local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
		textObject = TextService:FilterStringAsync(message, fromPlayerId)
	end)
	
	if success then
		return textObject
	elseif errorMessage then
		print("Error generating TextFilterResult:", errorMessage)
	end

	return false
end

local function getFilteredMessage(textObject)
	local filteredMessage = nil
	
	local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
		filteredMessage = textObject:GetNonChatStringForBroadcastAsync()
	end)
	
	if success then
		return filteredMessage
	elseif errorMessage then
		print("Error filtering message:", errorMessage)
	end
	
	return false
end

local function isTextValid(player, text)
	local messageObject = getTextObject(text, player.UserId)
	local filteredText = ""
	filteredText = getFilteredMessage(messageObject)
	
	return filteredText ~= text
end

FilterStringFunction.OnServerInvoke = function(player, text)
	return isTextValid(player, text)
end

Your text filtering code was wrong.