Change name of publishedcollection when creating or editing

Question

I need to change the name of the publishcollection when the collection is created or edited. This is to make sure the collection name matchs the name of the one on the remote server. I have tried the following code and it executes ok, but in the end the name of the collection is not changed.
here is the code
function publishServiceProvider.updateCollectionSettings( publishSettings, info )      
    local colname = "This is my new collection name"
    LrLibLogger.outputToLog( colname )
    catalog:withWriteAccessDo( "Set name", function ()
        info.publishedCollection:setName( colname )
        LrLibLogger.outputToLog(info.publishedCollection:getName()) -- outputs the old name and not the new one
    end)  
end
After running this the collection name is still the old one.

Answer 1

Hi Allen,
I've tested your second version of your code, and although I can't find why the name isn't fixed, I get an error, only when creating a new collection:
"We can only wait from within a task"
I found this at the Adobe documentation for pubCollection:getName():
"This function must be called from within an asynchronous task started using LrTasks. Must not be called from within the same catalog:with___WriteAccessDo gate in which the collection object was created."
I'm very new to Lua and LR development, but I hope this helps.
Regards,
Juanma