Json "defines"

International board Development
#1

Is there a way to use “defines” in JSON? I would like to be able to use names instead of numbers.

For example here…

// Indicate which dwelling produces which creature
	// Note that it is 1<->n connection since
	// a creature can be produced by more than one dwelling.
	"dwellings": 
		{ "dwelling": 0, "creature": 106 },
		{ "dwelling": 1, "creature": 96 },
		{ "dwelling": 2, "creature": 74 },
		{ "dwelling": 3, "creature": 66 },
#2

No macros in config.

Engine can already handle creatures by name (check HoTA pack), we’re going to change files to that format.

#3

Can you paste a small example of a hota file?

And theoretically if I wanted to use “macros” in JSON do you know a way to do it? :smiley:

#4

Check 0.9 release announcement for link to complete hota creatures package.

This is not a problem with json but with c++ in general - you can’t get string from enumerations items.
So if you have

enum
{
    RED,
    GREEN,
    BLUE
}

You won’t be able to get RED\GREEN\BLUE in runtime (for example to read such strings from file). Same goes to C-style define’s

This can be avoided with some macro magic. Take a look at lib/HeroBonus files.