Feature JSON in ash scripts

[Stardock]

Hey, I'm working on something that needs to move data from Javascript to KoLmafia and it seems to me the easier way would be through JSON. I was wondering if we could get JSON parsing capabilities added to ash.

Thanks for the consideration.

 

[StDoodle]

FWIW, though I can't for the life of me remember why, I do recall considering making this request myself at some point. I think I was hoping for some clan info from api.php, which doesn't look likely, but still... I could see the use, certainly.

 

[heeheehee]

Would be somewhat tricky. One way that I can see it working is Mafia returning a mapping of fully qualified names (e.g. "obj.key1.key2.val") to value in a string[string] map. Of course, circular references are somewhat sucky and likely to break this, but that's an edge case and can be documented.

 

[StDoodle]

To be fair, I personally lean toward the idea of "if mafia already has ways of parsing json built-in that would be easy enough to expose to ash functions, this would be aweseom; if it would be a great deal of work to do so... meh" philosophy.

 

[Stardock]

To be fair, I personally lean toward the idea of "if mafia already has ways of parsing json built-in that would be easy enough to expose to ash functions, this would be aweseom; if it would be a great deal of work to do so... meh" philosophy.

This is also my opinion. I can use maps as a workaround if needed.

 

[heeheehee]

The main issue, really, is that ASH doesn't have support for objects with arbitrary/self-referential structure, so there's no good way to format a javascript object.