What's the easiest way to modify .json files?

Shoes · 2013-05-22T09:48:57.000Z

Reason I ask is because only about two items fit on the screen at once for editing. If I want to do a mass change, it would take a bit of time to scroll around to add each line. Is there a way to like… export to excel or something?

i2amroy · 2013-05-22T10:23:49.000Z

Could you do a mass find/replace to automatically add it throughout the file?

drake1storm · 2013-05-22T11:25:26.000Z

open it up in notepad++.

Use the find and replace hotkey for your your operating system.

Done.

Soron · 2013-05-22T21:09:59.000Z

We don’t have a good JSON editor, other than simply using your standard text editor. But if someone finds or makes a good way to edit 'em, by all means, do share!

Shoes · 2013-05-23T13:14:46.000Z

In clothing, if a line is absent, does its value default to 0?

For example, instead of having the line “cutting : 0”, will its absence imply that its value is 0?

drake1storm · 2013-05-23T13:48:34.000Z

[quote=“Shoes, post:5, topic:1376”]In clothing, if a line is absent, does its value default to 0?

For example, instead of having the line “cutting : 0”, will its absence imply that its value is 0?[/quote]

No, you need all the lines or you will get an error.

GlyphGryph · 2013-05-23T19:00:28.000Z

[quote=“drake1storm, post:6, topic:1376”][quote=“Shoes, post:5, topic:1376”]In clothing, if a line is absent, does its value default to 0?

For example, instead of having the line “cutting : 0”, will its absence imply that its value is 0?[/quote]

No, you need all the lines or you will get an error.[/quote]

This actually depends on the value. Any attributes that are “optional” have appropriate defaults, but I don’t think cutting is one of them (item flags for example, however, are)

Basically, if it needs a value, it’s probably required, even if that value would be zero.

Soron · 2013-05-23T20:54:37.000Z

But, it does call debugmsg for any required attributes that are missing. If you don’t get any debugmsg spam upon game load, then you should have all the required attributes.

Shoes · 2013-05-23T22:01:29.000Z

Anyway to make most fields default to a certain something? I feel like that would improve immensely on readability.

Soron · 2013-05-23T22:10:53.000Z

Not without changing the item factory code, no.

GlyphGryph · 2013-05-24T04:27:30.000Z

Although I /did/ have almost all of them have defaults in the original version of that code, that was all lost when someone switched it over to catajson.

Soron · 2013-05-24T08:11:38.000Z

“Defaults” that emitted error messages :P.

It would be handy, though, to make more things (explicitly) optional; I just don’t want to be in a state where we’re telling modders that certain errors can be safely ignored.