[Beta] JSON Object

Finally extension is debuggued.
So.. I was a good job to come back to the front this topic (Please login to see this link.) forgotten in the matrix of Clickteam forums
Also, thanks for all help Phi and conceptgame, and for sure to LB for making dream live true!

I don't have the time to check it from now, but I will do later for sure

Can't wait to get home and check this out!!

LB, I'm trying your beta json object.
I have a json string like this :

{
    "elem1": [
        {
            'uid': '1',
            'id': '1'
        }
    ],
    "elem2": [
        {
            'uid': '2',
            'id': '2'
        }
    ]
....

The thing is I need in a loop to get every stringvalue$ of an object -
If have correctly understood (I don't know how to do this differently), in order to get return each stringvalue$, I have to do this :

Go to Root
Enter Object named ("elem"+loopindex)
Enter Array index (0)
Enter Object name("uid")
Go to Root
Enter Object named ("elem"+loopindex)
Enter Array index (0)
Enter Object name("id")
....

I'm just wondering why have I to set each time Go to Root, Enter Object named and array index....???
Because I'm just finally stucked since I'm blocked with the 127 limit actions because of these repeated lines of action...

Did I do something wrong ? or is just how your plugin working ? If so, do you think you can do something about this ?

Hopefully my english is clear, it's the end of my working day!
Thanks for your time!

Slightly off-topic, but I still think a Javascript scripting extension (that doesn't require MMF2 Developer and isn't based on Microsoft's Javascript engine) would be a better way to go.
I'm already using the WebView object for exactly this sort of thing, and it's so simple just to write a couple of Javascript functions to read & write variables in MMF2 - and you can use JSON.stringify() / parse() to easily save and load everything.

As you say, JSON doesn't really mesh well with MMF2 (the XML extensions are also pretty cumbersome, for the same reason), so I think it's actually easier to write some of the functions yourself.

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but I don't understand why you are trying to hard-code the loop instead of dynamically processing them?

Because it seems like I didn't find any other solution.

I used your json plugin in order to load a project in my application.
In the json string (my example above was only an example), I have 17 values/strings for each object. I use a loop to load each object in F2.5, in this loop I have to - among other things - save each of 17 values in 17 different variable of my object.
That's why I'm hard coding this looping process - I would think your extension would only need to declare "Go to Root", "Enter Object...", "Enter array index()" only once by event, and then just return the value from a manually "Enter Object named("---")" action.

If you have a solution....

This is very great LB. Can you add json_encode/create ?

is it possible to do an iOS port of this extension? would be amazing!!

thanks for the info, LB.

if you dont mind, can you put it on GitHub (clickteam-plugin) ?!?

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I'm 100% sure that there exists a useable library for iOS to port this extension

The one you used for Windows should work just fine! Only thing to port would be the actions/conditions/expressions to the iOS SDK.

Hi LB,

Your extension is awesome. Thanks for making it.
I currently have a crash when I load a JSON string in the object. This crash only happen in my project. When I try to reproduce it in another empty app, it doesn't crash and just work as expected.

Can I send you the MFA which has the crash and see if you can fix it?

Here the crash report (don't know if useful though...):

Signature du problème*:
Nom d’événement de problème: APPCRASH
Nom de l’application: edrt.exe
Version de l’application: 3.0.281.2
Horodatage de l’application: 52e1006e
Nom du module par défaut: JSON_Object.mfx
Version du module par défaut: 1.0.0.1
Horodateur du module par défaut: 51e297c2
Code de l’exception: c0000005
Décalage de l’exception: 00063329
Version du système: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Identificateur de paramètres régionaux: 1036
Information supplémentaire n°*1: 0a9e
Information supplémentaire n°*2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Information supplémentaire n°*3: 0a9e
Information supplémentaire n°*4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

EDIT: I finally found how to reproduce the crash! This is very strange infact... If you add a subapp on the frame, then end the sub-application at start of frame and finally load a JSON string into the JSON Object, = CRASH

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LB: I investigate a bit more and the problem seems bigger than expected.

When the sub-app is ended or destroyed, loading JSON crashes the main app.
When the sub-app is running, no crash but the JSON parsing doesn't work at all. Look at the MFA I joined in my previous post (I edited just before you replied)...

On a side note to enhance this object, I would love to see these features:

1) FloatValue() function should return the value even if it is formatted as an integer (but as a float for Fusion)... I don't know if it can be considered as a bug but when a number like "5" is read with FloatValue, it returns "0" instead of "5.0". Same for Double.

2) IntegerValue() function should return the value even if it is formatted as a float (but as an Integer for Fusion). Currently if I read 5.0 or 5.2, the function returns "0" instead of "5"... Same for Long.

3) Easy access to strings and float/integer. Like the INI, it would be very useful to read easily the values. Some functions like IntegerValueFromObject("json", > Object name < ) and FloatValueFromObject("json", > Object name < ) would be awesome.

4) Easy access to arrays and 2D array. Some functions like FloatFromArray("json", > index (0-based) <) and FloatFrom2DArray("json", > X index <, > Y index <) would be very welcomed.

Those things would make the usability of the object a lot more easier, faster and optimized in any Fusion App.

2 new bugs I discovered:

1) GetFloat and GetDouble always return 1 when the value is formatted as required like "0.1" or "10.2"
2) Entering an object which does not exist do not work, so when we use "Go to parent", the object is lost and nothing next work anymore... This force the use of "Go to root".