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Is there an easier way to dump a table?
I have a table in a data store which has a table inside of it. When I tried accessing that table or printing it, it just gave a hexadecimal output. Looping through the table did not work for me either. So after some research and questioning I implemented these two functions to get the data:
local function dumpTable(tableToDump)
local tbl = {}
if type(tableToDump) == "table" then
for i,v in pairs(tableToDump) do
wait()
table.insert(tbl, tostring(v))
end
return "{" .. table.concat(tbl, ", ") .. "}"
else
return nil
end
end
local function changeStringToTable(tbl)
local finishedTable = {}
for int in string.gmatch(tbl, "%d+") do
table.insert(finishedTable, tonumber(int))
end
return finishedTable
end
Is there an easier/more effective way of going about this? Thanks!
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Roblox has in-built functions to convert tables to string values and vice versa.
JSONEncode and JSONDecode in HttpService
Here's some code from the wiki on how to encode a json string. It's very simple:
local HttpService = game:GetService("HttpService")
local tab = {
-- Remember: these lines are equivalent
["message"] = "succes";
message = "success";
info = {
points = 120,
isLeader = true,
user = {
id = 12345,
name = "JohnDoe"
},
past_scores = {50, 42, 95},
best_friend = nil
}
}
-- A cyclic relationship like this...
tab.tab = tab
-- ...will be replaced with the string:
-- '* certain entries belong to the same table '*
local json = HttpService:JSONEncode(tab)
print(json)
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Roblox already JSONEncodes the datastore requests. User#21908 42 — 6y