ValueMap to convert JSON file

[GulperEeL]

Hello, Can we use ValueMap other than loading it from .plist file?
For example I want to load json file to be use in ValueMap,or maybe loading json from REST, since it’s very simple API to use, and easily used in cocos2d-X. Can we do that? thanks!

[stevetranby]

I have a sample of my JSON -> ValueMap here:

Rapidjson vs JsonCPP

Here’s what I came up with for an initial JSON -> cocos2d::Value using rapidjson (included as part of cocostudio lib). It’s a first pass so there are possibly unnecessary copies or even memory leak, or bug in the conversion. But it’s working with a couple simple .json and .plist comparison tests. Since I’ve used ValueMap and ValueVector extensively within one project since it was a migration from 2.x to 3.x and initially used plists this works for that project. I’m not sure it’ll be useful for a…

[GulperEeL]

Ah, I see. Thank you for the help.