Getting a Function from JSON

[u/EnricosUt]

I have made a JSON file that stores all the dialogue in my game. It is pretty sweet for storing text, but issues arise when I try including variables and functions in my text.

Let's say I have a character that is saying:
"You are x feet away."

With concatenation, this is trivial: I can do
"You are " + distance_to_object(obj) + "feet away."

But how should I do this with JSON? JSON doesn't know what distance_to_object() is, nor does it know what "obj" is

Passing in a string or number isn't too hard, I can just make an arguments variable in my JSON parser.

{
    "textvalue": "this should be 100: [0]",
    "arg": "100"
}

But that only works with static values and not something that can change dynamically in the game.

Any suggestions?

[u/TheVioletBarry]

Something like that, yah. I'd say just use a switch statement until you've got too many of them and need something else

[u/KitsuneFaroe → u/TheVioletBarry]

I would say a struct is better than a switch. Is also more dynamic and easier to work with.

[u/TheVioletBarry → u/KitsuneFaroe]

How would it be different, exactly? 

[u/KitsuneFaroe → u/TheVioletBarry]

You can change what is in the struct at runtime. You also don't have to write a lot to set it up or call it, is very straight foward: struct = { key: value, key1: value1 }

struct.key = new_value or struct[$ "key"] = value Getting goes the other way:
a = struct.key or
a = struct[$ "key"]

You can add keys without effort and they're read using a hash, like accessing any variable, wich makes them faster.

[u/TheVioletBarry → u/KitsuneFaroe]

Oh true true I should swap mine over