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Loaders

Loaders are the containers which store information about a file. They are attached to a profile by calling: 

local loader = Profile:CreateLoader(ID, DefaultData)

The ID is whats used for and internal and extrnal refrence of that loader and has to be unique to that loader (at least in that Profile)

DefaultData is what new files loaded are set too or is how existing files (if its a table) get new keys added. DefaultData is recomended to be a table, but it works as other types aswell.

Files

Before you can store data in a loader, you need it to have it loaded into a file or else it will throw an error.

You can load into a file by doing: 

loader:LoadInto(FileKey)

Note

Unlike ProfileKeys, FileKeys can be '2' or 2 and it will not refrence the same file.

Then, once your done with the file, you can load out of a file by doing: 

loader:Unload()

Warning

If you load out of a file with unsaved modified data, It will be pernamently gone!

Managing Data

You can get the data from a loader by calling: 

local data = loader:GetData()
This is a Strong Reference, meaning that modifying this variable will modify loaders internal data.

You can save a loaders file data by calling: 

loader:Save()

Note

the Save() method takes an optional perameter which lets you pass new data: 

loader:Save(NewData)

Putting all of this together, if you want have a counter that increases every time you load into a file you can do: 

local loader = Profile:CreateLoader("LoadCounter", 0)
loader:LoadInto(1)

local data = loader:GetData()

data += 1

loader:Save()

For more advanced loader usage check out: