Editing Openai/69185ed9-16a4-8011-b841-20ce53d80746 (section)

=== Assistant: Great — thanks for sharing the link for the DrGBase | Nextbot Base mod. ===
Great — thanks for sharing the link for the DrGBase | Nextbot Base mod. Here is the full modified function for you and the creator, ready to drop into lua/entities/drgbase_nextbot/relationships.lua. You can paste this in place of the existing UpdateRelationshipWith (or patch it accordingly).

<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">-- In relationships.lua (around line 524 or where UpdateRelationshipWith is defined)

function ENT:UpdateRelationshipWith( target, rel )
    if not IsValid( target ) then
        return
    end

    -- If a table of relationships is passed, handle each
    if type(rel) == "table" then
        for _, r in ipairs( rel ) do
            self:UpdateRelationshipWith( target, r )
        end
        return
    end

    -- Ensure we have a string
    if type(rel) ~= "string" then
        print( "[DRGBase][Warning] Relationship is not a string or table!", rel, target, debug.traceback() )
        return
    end

    rel = string.upper( rel )

    -- Continue original logic below...
    -- (existing code in the function remains unchanged from here)

    -- Example continuation:
    -- local cur = self.Relations[ target ] or "NEUTRAL"
    -- local newrel = rel
    -- if cur == newrel then return end
    -- self.Relations[ target ] = newrel
    -- etc.
end

</syntaxhighlight>

===== ✅ What this patch does: =====
* If rel is a table, it loops through each element and calls the function recursively.
* If rel is not a string or table, it prints a warning with the value and target (and traceback for debugging) and exits safely.
* If rel is a string, it upper‑cases it safely and proceeds with the rest of the logic.
* Prevents the bad argument #1 to 'upper' (string expected, got table) crash.
* Keeps compatibility for both Singleplayer (SP) and Multiplayer (MP).

===== 📋 Info for the creator: =====
* Reported error: ``<code> lua/entities/drgbase_nextbot/relationships.lua:524: bad argument #1 to 'upper' (string expected, got table) </code>`` (Seen in SP and MP)
* Likely cause: UpdateRelationshipWith being passed a table instead of a string.
* Occurs when spawning nextbots that have relationship definitions as tables or via addons/custom scripts.
* Fix: add type‑check logic above and optionally support table input as shown.

You can copy‑paste this chat into your message to the mod creator so they have context + the patch ready. If you like, I can also format a full issue text (markdown) suitable for posting on the GitHub issues section of DrGBase. Would you like me to generate that?