Converts a table to a JSON string. Keep in mind that not every data type can be stored in the JSON format, notably any entity will not be written, as if it wasn't in the table. Same goes for materials and textures, etc.
All keys are strings in the JSON format, so all keys of other types will be converted to strings!
This can lead to loss of data where a number key could be converted into an already existing string key! (for example in a table like this: {["5"] = "ok", [5] = "BBB"})
A JSON formatted string containing the serialized data
Example
Writes the positions and angles of every player to a JSON file called playerstuff.json.
local Players ={}for k, v inipairs(player.GetAll()) do
Players[k]={ pos =v:GetPos(), ang =v:GetAngles() }endlocal tab =util.TableToJSON( Players ) -- Convert the player table to JSONfile.CreateDir( "jsontest" ) -- Create the directoryfile.Write( "jsontest/playerstuff.json", tab) -- Write to .json
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