I am banging my head on this one.
I cannot find a way to open a simple json file from a subfolder in my WinJS App.
I have tried Ajax and WinJS.xhr, both to no avail.
I have also looked into opening the file the "old fashioned" way with something like File.Open in .NET, but I couldn't find anything besides WinJS.Application.local.readText, which I tried with both an absolute and a relative path.
I'm at the end of my rope here, does anyone have a working snippet that you can share?
You can refer to files in the app package using URLs in the form:
ms-appx:///data/data.json
(Notice that there are three /
characters - if you miss the third one out, you'll have problems)
To read and parse a file that contains a JSON object, you can use the objects in the Windows.Storage
namespace. There are three steps - to get a StorageFile object that points to the file, read the contents of the file and then parse the JSON data. Here is the code that I used to do this:
var url = new Windows.Foundation.Uri("ms-appx:///data/data.json");
Windows.Storage.StorageFile.getFileFromApplicationUriAsync(url).then(function (file) {
Windows.Storage.FileIO.readTextAsync(file).then(function (text) {
var parsedObject = JSON.parse(text);
// do something with object
});
});
There are lots of ways of reading the data from the file, but I find the FileIO
object the most convenient. The code above assumes there is one JSON object description in the file. If you have a file that contains one object per line, then you'll need this:
var url = new Windows.Foundation.Uri("ms-appx:///data/data.json");
Windows.Storage.StorageFile.getFileFromApplicationUriAsync(url).then(function (file) {
Windows.Storage.FileIO.readLinesAsync(file).then(function (lines) {
lines.forEach(function (line) {
var parsedObject = JSON.parse(line);
// do something with object
});
});
});
This is a slight variation that uses the FileIO.readLinesAsync
method to create an array of strings, each of which is parsed as a JSON object.
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