Hello there.
You might have noticed on some plugins, but there are usually SteamID request errors in the plugins.
In my opinion that happens when the player disconnects before we could request his ID. Now at me, for example HomeSystem, TpFriend and many other plugins uses timers.
Inside the timers, I usually want to find the player by his ID, but. When the player disconnects during the timer, he becomes null, and you cannot request his SteamID.
Now just right when I requested the player's id, and he was null I was getting huge amount of spam in my logs, which later affected the console, and then made my server crash.
When the player was null, the method it self didn't even return null in the code. I guess thats cause of Jint, since I noticed when there is an error, It breaks just right at that line, and won't continoue. Now when that happened at me, the player was stuck inside the DataStore, and remained null. That made my server to be flooded.
The solution that I found, which might others already know is a simple try-catch. With that I don't get any problems, or more error lines than 1.
For example:
When I used the Try-Catch method, my plugin finally returned null, and the plugin finally "killed" the job in the DataStore (removed).
I don't get the error in my main logs anymore, and It will only appear in your Plugin's log, but really rare. Like it contains 5 lines atm about null players, but not flooding my server atleast.
I didn't receive any floods since that I'm testing this (From around 14:00 pm).
I hope I helped some people out. Also, note that the same thing can happen with player's name or what ever.
You might have noticed on some plugins, but there are usually SteamID request errors in the plugins.
In my opinion that happens when the player disconnects before we could request his ID. Now at me, for example HomeSystem, TpFriend and many other plugins uses timers.
Inside the timers, I usually want to find the player by his ID, but. When the player disconnects during the timer, he becomes null, and you cannot request his SteamID.
JavaScript:
case "jointpdelay":
var checkn = config.GetSetting("Settings", "safetpcheck");
var joinplayer = BZHJ.getPlayer(params[0]); // Get player via ID
if (joinplayer != null) { // Check if null
joinplayer.TeleportTo(params[1], params[2], params[3]);
BZHJ.addJob('jointp', checkn, jobxData.params);
}
else { // If so remove
BZHJ.killJob(params[0]);
}
break;
JavaScript:
getPlayer: function(stam) {
for (var player in Server.Players) {
var id = player.SteamID;
if (id == stam && player != null) {
return player;
}
}
return null;
},
Code:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at Fougerite.Player.get_SteamID () <0x0002a>
at (wrapper dynamic-method) Jint.Marshal.ProxyHelper.dynamicPropertyGetter (Jint.Marshaller,Jint.Native.JsDictionaryObject) <0x00029>
at Jint.Native.NativeDescriptor.Get (Jint.Native.JsDictionaryObject) <0x0002a>
at Jint.Native.JsDictionaryObject.TryGetProperty (string,Jint.Native.JsInstance&) <0x00047>For example:
JavaScript:
getPlayer: function(stam) {
try {
for (var player in Server.Players) {
var id = player.SteamID;
if (id == stam && player != null) {
return player;
}
}
return null;
} catch(err) {
// You may also put "err" in the log method.
Plugin.Log("HomeSystemError", "Error caught at getPlayer method. Player was null, removing it from the timer.");
// Return null JUST right the moment when error occurs.
return null;
}
},I don't get the error in my main logs anymore, and It will only appear in your Plugin's log, but really rare. Like it contains 5 lines atm about null players, but not flooding my server atleast.
I didn't receive any floods since that I'm testing this (From around 14:00 pm).
I hope I helped some people out. Also, note that the same thing can happen with player's name or what ever.
Python:
def TrytoGrabID(self, Player):
try:
id = Player.SteamID
return id
except:
return None
JavaScript:
function TrytoGrabID(Player) {
try {
var id = Player.SteamID;
return id;
} catch(err) {
//Plugin.Log("Error", "Player was null.");
return null;
}
}
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