Example json

I have created the user.json with http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users.

Check the code folder for more comments.

In this example we are going to read and use a .json file.

How to start

Create a folder named foobar (please use a better name; any name will do) and create folders bin and src. See example below:

+ foobar
    + bin
    + src
        - Main.hx
    - build.hxml

The Main.hx

This example is too big to post here, so if you want to check out the complete file visit Main.hx

So the first part of this code is loading the json file:

var path = Sys.getCwd() + '/assets/users.json';

if(sys.FileSystem.exists(path)){
    var str : String = sys.io.File.getContent(path);
} else {
    trace ('ERROR: there is not file: $path');
}

convert data (String) to a json file: http://api.haxe.org/haxe/Json.html

    // trace('str: $str');
    json = haxe.Json.parse(str);

And then it's possible to convert the json to usable input:

for (i in 0 ... _json.length)
{
    var _user = json[i];
    trace ( "Name: " + _user.name );
}

To make that easier I use typedef

We convert the json data to User so when we use a IDE it will use autocompletion

typedef User =
{
    var id : Int; // 1
    var name : String; // Leanne Graham
    var username : String; // Bret
    var email : String; // Sincere@april.biz
    var address : {
          var street : String; // Kulas Light
          var suite : String; // Apt. 556
          var city : String; // Gwenborough
          var zipcode : String; // 92998-3874
          var geo : {
            var lat : String; // -37.3159
            var lng : String; // 81.1496
          };
    };
    var phone : String; // 1-770-736-8031 x56442
    var website : String; // hildegard.org
    var company : {
          var name : String; // Romaguera-Crona
          var catchPhrase : String; // Multi-layered client-server neural-net
          var bs : String; // harness real-time e-markets
    };
}

The Haxe build file, build.hxml

There are a lot of different arguments that you are able to pass to the Haxe compiler. These arguments can also be placed into a text file of one per line with the extension hxml. This file can then be passed directly to the Haxe compiler as a build script.

# // build.hxml
-cp src
-main Main
-php bin/www
-dce full

Build js with Haxe

To finish and see what we have, build the file and see the result

1. Open your terminal
2. cd to the correct folder where you have saved the build.hxml
3. type haxe build.hxml
4. press enter

You could build everything directly in the terminal.

haxe -cp src -main Main -php bin/www -dce full

It will have the same result