data is not saved if I assign it to a variable

[kumi5221]

Hello, when I use the localSave() function right after jsPsych.data.get(), the data is correctly saved in my local computer, but when I assign it to a separate variable, nothing is saved. Does anybody know what is happening here? I'm afraid that if the data is not saved locally, the data will not be saved to a remote server if I pass the variable to the save_data function.

function save_data(data) {
  $.ajax({
    type: 'post',
    cache: false,
    url: 'php_old/write_data.php',
    data: {
      "table": "interpretability",
      "new_data": JSON.stringify(data)
    }
  });
}

jsPsych.init({
  timeline: timeline,
  show_progress_bar: true,
  auto_update_progress_bar:false,
  on_finish: function(data) {
    

    //save data in the local machine
jsPsych.data.get().ignore('question_order').ignore('internal_node_id').ignore('trial_index').filterCustom(function(trial){
    return (trial.trial_type == "html-keyboard-response" || trial.trial_type == "interpretation") && trial.rt != null
    }).localSave('csv','test.csv'); //this works

    var exp_data = jsPsych.data.get().ignore('question_order').ignore('internal_node_id').ignore('trial_index').filterCustom(function(trial){
    return (trial.trial_type == "html-keyboard-response" || trial.trial_type == "interpretation") && trial.rt != null
    })
      
    exp_data.localSave('csv','test.csv'); //but this doesn't work

    /*
    //save in the lab server
    save_data(exp_data)
    */
  }
  });

[jodeleeuw]

Hi @kumi5221 ,

That's really odd. There shouldn't be any difference between adding .localSave to the end of the functions or saving the intermediate values to a variable and calling it on that. Have you made any progress on this since you posted?