Roblox: Data is Saving, But Fails when trying to load? - roblox

Question

So what I've been trying is to Save a certain "Text" to the DataStore from a TextLabel, The Data Saves Successfully, But when trying to load it gives me just gives me a "Failed", Any Help?
Here's a Quick Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-J6U8zmATk&feature=youtu.be
Script:
local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local IDStorage = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("IDStorage3")
elseif Player.Team.Name == "Intelligence Agency" then
if Player:IsInGroup(7503826) or Player:GetRankInGroup(7465879) >= 251 then
Rank.User.Text = "[REDACTED]"
Rank.User.Back.Text = "[REDACTED]"
Rank.Rank.TextColor3 = Color3.new(0.827451, 0, 0)
game.ReplicatedStorage.NewID.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, playerToID, AssignedID)
if player:IsInGroup(7465879) then
local success, err = pcall(function()
IDStorage:SetAsync(playerToID, AssignedID)
end)
if success then
print("Data Assigned") -- Data Works and Saves
else
warn("Failed to Save")
end
end
end)
local ID = IDStorage:GetAsync(Player)
if ID then
print(ID)
else
warn("Failed") -- Always Returns me this.
Rank.Rank.Text = "0"
end
Rank.User.Text = "[REDACTED]"
Rank.User.Back.Text = "[REDACTED]"
end

Answer 1

The DataStore:GetAsync(key) function expects a string for the key. It looks like you're passing in a Player object and not the player's username, which you said was the key that you were storing the data in.
Try this swapping this line
local ID = IDStorage:GetAsync(Player)
for this instead :
local success, result = pcall(function()
local key = Player.Name
return IDStorage:GetAsync(key)
end
if success then
print("Got Id : ", result)
local ID = result
if ID then
-- do stuff with the result
else
-- looks like a new player with no saved data
end
else
warn("failed to get id with error :", result)
-- do something to handle the error, like retry
end
Something to be careful about when saving data is that usernames can change. If I were to change my name, the next time I joined this game, all of my progress would be gone because the name doesn't match up with the saved key. That is why a player's userId tends to be the recommend key.