Re: reading a .json file from disc

[Sebastien Lai <237482@...>]

You're using the IO library wrongly:

 function file_getdata()
        local data_file_path = gre.SCRIPT_ROOT .. "/myfile.json"
        local handle = io.open(data_file_path)
        local data = handle:read("*all")
        handle:close()
        return data
end

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Dave Collins
<Dave.Collins@mercatustechnologies.com> wrote:
> I'm doing something wrong.
>
> (I am converting an api call into a local file call. It should just read the entire 70K response (in json format) into the var. I parse it out later.)
>
> This hangs my app:
>
> function file_getdata()
>        local data_file_path = gre.SCRIPT_ROOT .. "/myfile.json"
>        local f = io.open(data_file_path)
>        f = io.read("*all")
>        f = io.close()
>        return f
> end
>
>
>
>
> Dave Collins
> Front-End Engineer
> Mercatus Technologies Inc.
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>
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