Serialize/deserialize player data to/from JSON

[tagniam]

Currently we save player data by writing raw values line-by-line in data.txt. It looks something like this:

1
Dude
M
11
10
89
35
2
9
18
78
401

We'd like to change the player data parsing code so that it supports reading from and writing to data.txt in JSON format, which should be changed to look something like this:

{
    "player_type": 1,
    "name": "Dude",
    "gender": "M",
    "level": 11,
    "experience": 10,
    "health": 89,
    "arrows": 35,
    "bombs": 2,
    "potions": 9,
    "whetstones": 18,
    "weaponstrength": 78,
    "coins": 401
}

This way it is much clearer what the player's attributes are by looking at data.txt.

Feel free to use a JSON parsing library, though preferably it should be lightweight and header-only!

[captaincrunch21]

Hey!
I can solve this. I will rapidjson. It's header only and lightweight. How big the save file will be? And are keys predefined or can they be created by user on the fly?

[tagniam]

The save file is small (see the example in the issue) and the keys are predefined, however developers might add more keys in the future if we add more player attributes, so the code implementation should be flexible enough to support that.

[pallavi267]

hey i want to work on this is the enhancement open?

[tagniam]

@pallavi267 yup it's open!

[pallavi-bits]

Please assign it to me, i want to do this.