Lua After 20 minutes, a function is returning a unexpected value.

[devianceone]

I have a problem, I'm writing a script that uses a global event, activated every 2 seconds which has a check to see if a event is active or not before executing the code..

	if tpIsActive() == false or tpIsWaiting() == true then
		return true
	end

tpIsActive() was at first was the code below, always returning true if I had my global storage set to 1 or higher, else sending false.

return getStorage(ThePlague.Config.gsGameIsActive) > 0

After about 15-20 minutes, I always get a error about attempting to compare a string to a bool, this means tpIsActive, which should always return a bool, returned a string instead.

I changed the code up to see what was happening and set it to

function tpIsActive()
	local isActive = getStorage(ThePlague.Config.gsGameIsActive)
	if type(isActive) == "number" then
		if tonumber(isActive) >= 1 then
			return true
		else
			return false
		end
	else
		print("[ THE PLAGUE ] Error: isActive returned a non number! [" .. tostring(isActive) .. ", type: " .. tostring(type(isActive)) .. "]")
		return false
	end

	return false
end

Again, after 20 minutes I got my error message, it was a string containing weird characters.

[ THE PLAGUE ] Error: isActive returned a non number! [└ -, type: string]

Can anyone explain to me whats going on? Why does grabbing global storages, or functions sometimes return a string to me usually at the 15-20 minute mark? The script will work fine after I handle the potential errors, functions return values as normal.

0.4dev, r3884

 

[devianceone]

Still having this problem, anyone have a clue?

 

[Jano]

sounds familiar, dont you think?

 

[devianceone]

sounds familiar, dont you think?

Familiar to what?

 

[Jano]

Familiar to what?

chris server event

 

[devianceone]

chris server event

This uses no code of yours, you're welcome to try it out if you want, drop me a pm. It doesn't involve any pvp, teams or scoring system like KoH. The only thing it has in common is the fact is uses a waiting room and an 'arena' room.

 

[Jano]

nah i wasnt talking about it, but koh got the samme issue, global storages returning unecpected values after some time, didnt meant anything else p: