Introduction

This fortnight I spent my time trying to work on converting JSON files into a class. I spent most of the time doing research and have made some headway but haven't refined the project just yet.

Goals

• Convert a JSON to a usable CS file.
• Use the information stored in the CS file to create an object or weapon.

Personnel

Technologies, Tools, and Resources used

Provide resource information for team members who wish to learn additional information from this spike.

      Writing to files in c#/unity:

• creating text files: https://youtu.be/6bVcLSZWqK8 accessed 20/8/2019
• classes vs structs: https://youtu.be/G5KJolM2uzs accessed 9/08/2019
• JSON Serialization: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/JSONSerialization.html accessed 20/08/2019
• File.WriteAllText: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.file.writealltext?view=netframework-4.8 accessed 20/08/2019

What we found out

When writing to a CS file, the file still needs to be formatted in such a way to accommodate the syntax of C#. Therefore if a file is changed between formats, then the syntax will no longer work. This makes the process much more difficult however I have atleast managed to load the data from the JSON to a c# file. I'm now looking at ways to format the file based on each class with the line "ID" and create a seperate Weapon class based off those. This means using for loops.