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Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 1109

LibGDX json storage for game items

I have a class named item in which I have more fields of ints and floats for attributes like damage, level requirement and other stuff. I wanted to keep some predefined items in a json file and when I need a new item with that set of attributes to take it out with the name from json file. Let's say I want a sword and a bow:

//json example file -- this isn't a proper file 
//this is a preview of what I would like
{
godly_sword {damage: 45, level: 10},
normal_bow {damage: 4, level: 3}
}

I want to be able to take these from a json by their name and create a new object with those attributes like this:

//Creating a new item which has a preset of attributes assigned to the name godly_sword
Item weapon = json.fromJson(Item.class, "godly_sword");

I tried playing with this in different ways but all I could do is load only one preset:

//Proper json file
{
class: game.Item,
damage: 45,
level: 10
}

This works but it isn't much of a help, because I don't want to create a json file for every item I predefined. Any advice would be very helpful.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 677

Answers (1)

Sound Conception
Sound Conception

Reputation: 5421

Keys should be in quotes.

{
"godly_sword" {"damage": 45, "level": 10},
"normal_bow" {"damage": 4, "level": 3}
}

You could also consider defining the weapons in an array, which you do using square brackets [].

Take a look at this tutorial on Parsing JSON in libGdx. If you're new to JSON, it explains things in much clearer terms than the libGdx wiki.

Upvotes: 1

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