Web access

[Jimmy]

I've got a related question today.

Got the local .json file access working (am also very happy that Cerberus includes a json class, this save me a lot of time writing json code!).

What if you want to cut the middleman and instead now you want to load and save the data using a https server? This will be very a very important for highscores so I thought I'd better look into this before I choose the toolset that will be needed to create the whole game.

I've checked the documentation the whole day and I found that fileStream is used for files while Sockets seems to be the one for the web.I want to stay clear from TCPstream.

This is the local version which will be my base for downloading (and eventually uploading) a json file from a HTTPS server.

Strict
Import mojo2
Import brl.filestream
Import os

Function Main:Int()
    New Game()
    Return 0
End

Class Game Extends App

    Field canvas:Canvas
 
    Method OnCreate:Int()
        canvas=New Canvas
        canvas.Clear
        
        ' Create data
        Local numbers:Int[] = [10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100]

        ' Find directory
        Local exeRoot := RealPath(ExtractDir(AppPath()))
        Local besideapp := RealPath(exeRoot+"/../../../")

        ' Save data
        Local dump := New FileStream(besideapp+"/"+"numbers.dat","w")
        For Local i:Int = EachIn numbers
            dump.WriteString(i+ ",") ' as (8-bit) strings, totally 31 bytes.
            ' dump.WriteInt(i) ' as (32-bit) integers, totally 40 bytes.
        Next
        dump.Close
        
        Return 0
    End
    
    Method OnRender:Int()
        ' DebugStop
        Return 0
    End

End

 

[MikeHart]

For saving highscore, i would go with a PHP script and a database on your web host, and access it with the httprequest module of CX.

 

[Jimmy]

You mean like a REST API? Okay that's an old method but It still stands I guess. It's certainly is acceptable.

Thanks. I really appreciate it