Adding a file on Resources folder (on Build)

Scripting
1

Hello!

My Json file is not appearing in “FOTO_DATA/Resources”.

I’m using Resources.Load(...) and the file is in “Assets/Resources”. I used Debug.Log(Resources.Load(...)) to make sure the file is been loaded sucessfully.

The game has no problem in Unity Editor, but when i build it this error is shown:
Could not find file “C:\Users------\Desktop\FOTO_Data\Resources\relations.json”

When i paste relations.json on the folder the game works fine.

The code:

public TextAsset arquivoJson;

private void Start() {
fileJson = Resources.Load(“relations”) as TextAsset;
jsonString = arquivoJson.ToString();
relationData = JsonMapper.ToObject(jsonString);
}

Anyone can help me solving this?

2

Make sure everything is correct and matches proper caps and such. Your code itself seems fine, however, I do see you are loading into “fileJson” but then you are convert “arquivoJson” toString. That’s perhaps because you just dropped the file into the variable for testing.

Otherwise, I use the same code, just a different json asset, to do my json.

3

To get the contents of a TextAsset, you’d want to use aquivoJson.text or fileJson.text, not ToString(). ToString() will just give you the name of the file. I don’t think that’s the particular problem you’re having here, but it’s certainly a problem.

4

ToString returns the text as well. I use it in my current game and it works just fine. I have also used .text as well. They give the same results.

5

Huh… weird. That’s A) not how ToString used to work with TextAssets, B) inconsistent with how ToString works with literally any other UnityEngine.Object-based class, and C) not what the documentation for the function says (according to the docs, the TextAsset.ToString inherits the standard UnityEngine.Object ToString method). But, a quick test confirms that that is indeed what it does.

I’ve bugreported it as a problem with the documentation.

6

Ah, ic. Interesting to know. It does appear TextAsset overrides ToString(). I suppose .text is probably a better choice to avoid confusion.

7

Test below code:

public static JsonData itemdata;
private string jsonString;
private TextAsset file;

// Use this for initialization
void Awake () {
file = Resources.Load (“AreaInfo”) as TextAsset;
jsonString = file.ToString ();
itemdata = JsonMapper.ToObject (jsonString);
}