Anyone have success with Json.net or other Json libraries?

[noisybit]

I'm having trouble getting Json.net (http://james.newtonking.com/json) working in my mod. I think it comes down to KSP/Unity linking against a slightly different version of System.Data.dll. Does anyone have any suggestions or pointers to another Json library. The root exception on calling a Json.net method is

Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies.

I had success with SimpleJSON (http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/SimpleJSON) but it doesn't preserve type information.

[Greys]

ModStats uses json to encode the statistics package for transmission to the collection server

*goes for coffee*

https://github.com/Majiir/ModStatistics/blob/master/ModStatistics.cs

the very first line is: using JsonFx.Json;

https://github.com/jsonfx/jsonfx

[sarbian]

You need to make sure it's build for .NET 3.5 and not 4 or later. ie build it your self.

[noisybit]

Thanks! I ended up getting Facebook's Json library to work (https://github.com/facebook-csharp-sdk/simple-json). But I'll take a look at JsonFx too.

[noisybit]

Yeah, Unity/KSP seem to be quite particular with c# versions and libraries. Am I correct in thinking that whatever is linked into Unity and KSP is slightly non-standard, even using the c# 3.5 client profile?

[blizzy78]

I don't think so, because you don't use Unity to compile it, but your C# compiler.

[noisybit]

I don't think so, because you don't use Unity to compile it, but your C# compiler.

True. I just learned C# for this project so my knowledge is a little lacking. What's inside the Assembly-CSharp reference that we link in from the KSP install?

[sarbian]

The game code itself.

[noisybit]

The game code itself.

Derp. Yup. Thanks.

[MeateaW]

Yeah, Unity/KSP seem to be quite particular with c# versions and libraries. Am I correct in thinking that whatever is linked into Unity and KSP is slightly non-standard, even using the c# 3.5 client profile?

Unity uses Mono, which is an open source implementation of DotNet. They use mono so they can use dotnet on mac, and linux. As far as I am aware they have most of .net 2, and 3.5 is based off the 2 framework. (4 onwards did new [awesome] things, which we sadly cannot use due to mono not implementing them [yet??]).