How to manage and process data? E.G. Questions for a Quiz Game

Hi devs,

I'm porting my mobile app to project tiny in order to have a version in Facebook Instant.
My app is a Music Trivia, so my app is very data-based.
So far, I studied the project tiny core fondumentals, and I can correctly download/stream image and audio inside my build, so I'm ready to put my information in order to have the actual application flow.
So here it is my question:
How can I manage the data for my game? II have an API wich will give me all the needed information, the response is formatted like this:

Code (JavaScript):

1. "questions": [
2.         {
3.             "answer": {
4.                 "correct": {
5.                     "song_api_id": "x",
6.                     "id": "xxx",
7.                     "artist": "ARTIST",
8.                     "title": "TITLE",
9.                     "url": "***.mp3",
10.                     "rank": "73056",
11.                     "value": 82.682523381337
12.                 },
13.                 "alternatives": {
14.                     "12": { "song_api_id": "x",
15.                     "id": "xxx",
16.                     "artist": "ARTIST",
17.                     "title": "TITLE",
18.                     "url": "***.mp3",
19.                     "rank": "73056",
20.                     "value": 82.682523381337
21.                     },
22.                     "13": {
23.                          "song_api_id": "x",
24.                     "id": "xxx",
25.                     "artist": "ARTIST",
26.                     "title": "TITLE",
27.                     "url": "***.mp3",
28.                     "rank": "73056",
29.                     "value": 82.682523381337
30.                     },
31.                     "14": {
32.                          "song_api_id": "x",
33.                     "id": "xxx",
34.                     "artist": "ARTIST",
35.                     "title": "TITLE",
36.                     "url": "***.mp3",
37.                     "rank": "73056",
38.                     "value": 82.682523381337
39.                     }
40.                 }
41.             }
42.         },
43.        
44. {
45.             "answer": {
46.                 "correct": {
47.                     "song_api_id": "x",
48.                     "id": "xxx",
49.                     "artist": "ARTIST",
50.                     "title": "TITLE",
51.                     "url": "***.mp3",
52.                     "rank": "73056",
53.                     "value": 82.682523381337
54.                 },
55.                 "alternatives": {
56.                     "12": { "song_api_id": "x",
57.                     "id": "xxx",
58.                     "artist": "ARTIST",
59.                     "title": "TITLE",
60.                     "url": "***.mp3",
61.                     "rank": "73056",
62.                     "value": 82.682523381337
63.                     },
64.                     "13": {
65.                          "song_api_id": "x",
66.                     "id": "xxx",
67.                     "artist": "ARTIST",
68.                     "title": "TITLE",
69.                     "url": "***.mp3",
70.                     "rank": "73056",
71.                     "value": 82.682523381337
72.                     },
73.                     "14": {
74.                          "song_api_id": "x",
75.                     "id": "xxx",
76.                     "artist": "ARTIST",
77.                     "title": "TITLE",
78.                     "url": "***.mp3",
79.                     "rank": "73056",
80.                     "value": 82.682523381337
81.                     }
82.                 }
83.             }
84.         }
85. ,
86. ..
87. ]

How can I store all this information and access them in a proper way? I thought to make an external JS library that will manage this, but probably it's not the best option.

 

If you mean parsing that data, unity has json parser
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/JsonUtility.html

 

Since we are talking about Javascript, you can use JSON.parse
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/JSON/parse

 

My question was not about how parsing the response from the API. Maybe I wasn't totally clear. My apologies.

My question was about how to store the data. For example with the Object-Oriented pattern I used to create my Question class which contains all the information of the question, and a QuestionManager as singleton, in order to process all the flow from anywhere in the app.

Something like:

QuestionManager.instance.GetCurrentQuestion()

How can this can be performed in ECS?

 

Storing data on disk or just as a cache for that moment?

 

The way I do it is to create a config component. This makes its info available in all the systems, similar to the singleton pattern you added as an example.

I'd like someone to confirm this is the proper way to do it. I came to the forums looking for an answer on the exact same thing. Thank you.

 

@Zoelovezle caching for the moment.

@Adrian-Anta I thought so, but I can't add custom type to the confing. For example I need a List/Array of my questions which is a custom tupe created parsing the json above.

 

You can create an array of your custom type by creating an array of tiny structs. Then link it to the config component.
Create/Tiny/Struct

 

One way would be as @Adrian-Anta said, the other way would be to create an empty static variable in some service class and assign the parsed json there. With a little bit of playaround, you can even create a class constructor to populate the parsing of json file and automatically create a dictionary/list and just access it whenever you want until the page is refreshed.

 

Thank you so much for pointing me the way.
I created a custom class that contains my question info, and a struct which with an array of question info and have all referenced in a Service in order to access the info where I need them.

 

Hi! How you parse the data from the json to show parameters and add it to an entity? Thank