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Why is my remote function returning nil?
Hi everyone, quick question.
I'm basically sending out announcements in a game to all clients, but before doing so it individually matches the player's chat filtering settings.
I do this using a remote function to filter the chat in a server script, and then return the filtered text.
Here is my code?
Server Script:
01 | local repStore = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage") |
02 | local TextService = game:GetService("TextService") |
03 |
04 | function repStore.filterMsg.OnServerInvoke(player,msg) |
05 | local success, errorMessage = pcall(function() |
06 | return TextService:FilterStringAsync(msg, player.UserId):GetChatForUserAsync(player.UserId) |
07 | end) |
08 | if not success then |
09 | warn("Error filtering text:", msg, ":", errorMessage) |
10 | return |
11 | end |
12 | end |
Local Script:
1 | repStore.sendAnnouncement.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(msg,timer) --this is a remote event that is used for when an admin sends the announcement |
2 | msg = repStore.filterMsg:InvokeServer(msg) |
3 | print(msg) |
4 | end) |
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
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It is probably returning 'nil' because it didn't have enough time to process the filter, I am not so sure how you should go about to fix it. Torren_Mr 334 — 4y
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During a test I put print(msg) before and after it being filtered (obviously removed the return and made it a variable) - it worked fine and filtered it properly it just doesn't make it back to the local script. ryanaskew 50 — 4y
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Okay your issue here is your listening for "OnClientEvent' you should be listening for "OnClientInvoke" with a remotefunction since OnClientEvent pertains to A remote event. See if that solves the problem!
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Hi, sorry I should have specified but that is unrelated to the problem, I shouldn't have included it. ryanaskew 50 — 4y
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Oops, sent comment early. As I was saying, the event is in the admin script which isn't related to this but the remote function I'm having the problem with is in the server script (first script I show). I InvokeServer in line 2 of the local script. ryanaskew 50 — 4y
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Found out it was because I was returning it in the pcall function, not sure why but oh well... works now.