Forum ‹ BigDB ‹ PreloadPlayerObjects and weird guest name

[LostBytes]

I have PreloadPlayerObjects = true in my room, when guest user with certain characters in name joins (for example [ or ]) then I get "Unable to preload PlayerObject in Server" error before I can do anything. Is this problem on my side, is there some limit to what characters are allowed in userid param of PlayerIO.connect or is it something else?

[Henrik]

Thanks for the report, we'll look into it.

[Oliver]

I think the problem is that we've limited the set of characters that can be used for BigDB keys, but haven't limited the connectUserIds.

As such, not all connectUserIds are valid BigDB keys.

The only way around it is to limit the set of characters players can use as their guest names.

Best,
Oliver