Saving Ray coordinates to JSON

Hello Community!

I have been using Editor XR for one of my projects, and I created a new tool to get the coordinates where I am pointing the ray and save the vector coordinates into a JSON file(or .txt file). But it is not working, rather I am getting just empty curly braces in my file.

What is the problem?

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System;
3. using System.IO;
4.  
5. namespace UnityEditor.Experimental.EditorVR.Tools
6. {
7.     [MainMenuItem("Json Exporter", "primitive", "Saving data to Json")]
8.     [SpatialMenuItem("Json Exporter", "primtive", "Saving data to Json")]
9.     sealed class JsonSaver : MonoBehaviour, ITool, IConnectInterfaces, IInstantiateMenuUI,
10.         IUsesSpatialHash, IUsesViewerScale, ISelectTool, IIsHoveringOverUI, IIsMainMenuVisible,
11.         IRayVisibilitySettings, IRequestFeedback, IMenuIcon
12.     {
13.         //public JsonData getdata;
14.  
15.         [SerializeField]
16.         Sprite m_Icon;
17.  
18.         [Serializable]
19.  
20.         public class VerticesData
21.         {
22.             public Vector3[] vertices = new Vector3[d];
23.         }
24.         public VerticesData verticesData;
25.         string dataPath;
26.         public static int d;
27.  
28.         public Sprite icon { get { return m_Icon; } }
29.         public Transform rayOrigin { get; set; }
30.  
31.  
32.         void Start()
33.         {
34.             dataPath = Path.Combine(Application.persistentDataPath, "CharacterData.txt");
35.  
36.             d = CreateTool.a;
37.             verticesData.vertices = CreateTool.VerticesData.vertices;
38.  
39.         }
40.  
41.         void Update()
42.         {
43.             SaveCharacter(verticesData, dataPath);
44.             Debug.Log(Application.persistentDataPath);
45.         }
46.  
47.         static void SaveCharacter(VerticesData data, string path)
48.         {
49.             string jsonString = JsonUtility.ToJson(data);
50.  
51.             using (StreamWriter streamWriter = File.CreateText(path))
52.             {
53.                 streamWriter.Write(jsonString);
54.             }
55.         }
56.         void OnDestroy()
57.         {
58.             //ObjectUtils.Destroy(m_ToolMenu);
59.  
60.             if (rayOrigin == null)
61.                 return;
62.  
63.             this.RemoveRayVisibilitySettings(rayOrigin, this);
64.             this.ClearFeedbackRequests();
65.         }
66.     }
67. }

Here, CreateTool is a different tool which is getting the coordinates of ray pointer. Also, I am simply defining the variable vertices in CreateTool script.

Code (CSharp):

1.  [Serializable]
2.         public class VerticesData
3.         {
4.  
5.             public static Vector3[] vertices = new Vector3[a];
6.  
7.         }
8.  
9. // and later in code putting value of vertices as
10. sidesy = rayOrigin.position[1];
11. VerticesData.vertices[a] =  rayOrigin.position + rayOrigin.forward * sidesy * this.GetViewerScale();;
12.  

Am I defining the code in wrong manner?

Thanks to everyone!!
Awaiting your comments. If I have described something in a wrong way or their is a confusion, please feel free to ask.

 

Hi @KushMathur, were you able to figure this out? This is likely more of an issue with serialization than it is with EditorXR. For starters, you probably don't need a lot of interfaces that you are including. I think you'd only need ITool at the very least since you are copying data from CreateTool.

 

I did created a temporary solution for it, I am putting a non visible sphere where we point the mouse with a tag, and later a new script will take the tags and will take the transform.position of these spheres. It is working, I do not know but, maybe it will be having performance issue later in the project.

Thanks for reply though!