how to Load json for windows build unity

Question

I have tried alot of solution but no one is working in my case, my question is simple but i cant find any answer specially for windows build. I have tried to load json form persistent , streaming and resource all are working good in android but no any solution work for windows build. here is my code please help me.

public GameData gameData;
    private void LoadGameData()
    {
        string path = "ItemsData";
        TextAsset targetFile = Resources.Load<TextAsset>(path);
        string json = targetFile.text;
        gameData = ResourceHelper.DecodeObject<GameData>(json);
        //  gameData = JsonUtility.FromJson<GameData>(json);
        print(gameData.Items.Count);
}

here is my data class

[Serializable]
public class GameData
{
    [SerializeField]
    public List<Item> Items;


    public GameData()
    {
        Items = new List<Item>();
    }
}

public class Item
{
    public string Id;
    public string[] TexturesArray;

    public bool Active;

    public Item()
    {
    }
    public Item(string _id, string[] _textureArray ,  bool _active = true)
    {
        Id = _id;
        TexturesArray = _textureArray;
        Active = _active;
    }
}

Answer 1

In order to be (de)serialized Item should be [Serializable]

using System;

...

[Serializable]
public class Item
{
    ...
}

Then you could simply use Unity's built-in JsonUtility.FromJson:

public GameData gameData;
private void LoadGameData()
{
    string path = "ItemsData";
    TextAsset targetFile = Resources.Load<TextAsset>(path);
    string json = targetFile.text;
    gameData = JsonUtility.FromJson<GameData>(json);
    print(gameData.Items.Count);
}

---

For loading something from e.g. persistentDataPath I always use something like

var path = Path.Combine(Application.persistentDataPath, "FileName.txt")
using (var fs = File.Open(path, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read))
{
    using (var sr = new StreamReader(fs))
    {
        var json = sr.ReadToEnd();

        ...
    }
}

For development I actually place my file into StreamingAssets (streamingAssetsPath) while running the code in the Unity Editor.

Then on runtime I read from persistentFilePath. If the file is not there I first copy it from the streamingassetsPath the first time.

Here I wrote more about this approach