text value within a datastream always comes as nil

[tgp1994]

Hi everyone. As some of you know, I'm making my own map system for the public (2.01) Zombie Survival. This is kind of working as my learning of lua, too.

So anyways, I have a datastream initiating from a client script to ask the server for a list of maps. That part of the client script looks like this:

datastream.StreamToServer("CallIn", {["text"] = "availmaps"})

Then the server's lua file receives it, and is supposed to look at the text variable and decide what to do from there. Here's that:

function GM:AcceptStream(pl,handler,id)
	return true
end

function answerCall(player, handle, id, encoded, decoded) --Multi purpouse answering machine :D
	if encoded.text == "availmaps" then
		datastream.StreamToClients(player, "ReplyWithMaps", {["table"] = availmaps})
	else ErrorNoHalt("Received incorrect encoded.text in function answerCall. The sender was: "..tostring(player)..", and encoded.text was: "..tostring(encoded.text)..".\n")
	end
end
datastream.Hook("CallIn", answerCall)

For whatever reason, the text if coming back as nil, causing to fall back on the else statement, and giving me this error:

Received incorrect encoded.text in function answerCall. The sender was: Player [1][[FH]TGP1994], and encoded.text was: nil.

If anyone could help, that would be great.

[yakahughes]

if [b]encoded[/b].text == "availmaps" then

[tgp1994]

[QUOTE=yakahughes;20472719]if [b]encoded[/b].text == "availmaps" then[/QUOTE]

Why did you copy what I had?

[b]@DaveParker:[/b] For some reason the tutorial in the wiki always uses encoded, but I will give decoded a try.

[editline]10:51AM[/editline]

And this time, datastream the module gets an error: (when I use decoded:)

includes/modules/datastream.lua:406: attempt to call field 'func' (a nil value)

And the updated server script looks like this now:

[lua]
function GM:AcceptStream(pl,handler,id)
return true
end

function answerCall(player, handle, id, encoded, decoded) --Multi purpouse answering machine :D
if decoded.text == "availmaps" then
datastream.StreamToClients(player, "ReplyWithMaps", {["table"] = availmaps})
else ErrorNoHalt("Received incorrect decoded.text in function answerCall. The sender was: "..tostring(player)..", and encoded.text was: "..tostring(decoded.text)..".\n")
end
end
datastream.Hook("CallIn", answerCall)
[/lua]

[editline]11:31AM[/editline]

Can anyone help?

[editline]12:29PM[/editline]

Well, I think I can call this a closed case. I was doing something wrong here, but I'm re-engineering the communication system so it's more efficient.

[yakahughes]

[QUOTE=tgp1994;20472924]Why did you copy what I had?
[/QUOTE]

WOW. It was to call attention to the fact that you were using encoded instead of decoded. Massive fail.

[MakeR]

[QUOTE=yakahughes;20493014]WOW. It was to call attention to the fact that you were using encoded instead of decoded. Massive fail.[/QUOTE]

You should have told him what he was doing wrong.

[tgp1994]

[quote=yakahughes]WOW. It was to call attention to the fact that you were using encoded instead of decoded. Massive fail.
[/quote]
[quote=MakeR]You should have told him what he was doing wrong.[/quote]

Actually sir, the fail is on your part. I agree with MakeR; you weren't helping in the least by bolding something I had typed.

[yakahughes]

[QUOTE=tgp1994;20497353]Actually sir, the fail is on your part. I agree with MakeR; you weren't helping in the least by bolding something I had typed.[/QUOTE]

I thought it would be obvious, because I was calling attention to the word encoded.

[tgp1994]

[QUOTE=yakahughes;20503717]I thought it would be obvious, because I was calling attention to the word encoded.[/QUOTE]

Well, you have to remember, this is in the section Nembie Questions ;) Most newbies like me don't know how the heck datastream works, and in fact, the tutorial wiki article was wrong, before I learned here what the difference was and fixed it back at the wiki.