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Newtonsoft.Json (Json.NET) 10.0.3, 11.0.2, 12.0.3, & 13.0.1 for Unity IL2CPP builds, available via Unity Package Manager
https://github.com/jilleJr/Newtonsoft.Json-for-Unity
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Logo Newtonsoft.Json for Unity

Latest Version @ OpenUPM Latest Version @ Cloudsmith CircleCI Codacy grade Financial Contributors on Open Collective Contributor Covenant

Json.NET is a popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET and the most used framework throughout the whole .NET ecosystem.

This repo is a fork of JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json containing custom builds for regular standalone, but more importantly AOT targets such as all IL2CPP builds (WebGL, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac OS X) and portable .NET (UWP, WP8).

⚠ Deprecation warning

Since late February 2022, Unity has now published an updated version of their package: com.unity.nuget.newtonsoft-json@3.0

Their package, since v2.0.0-preview.1, is a fork of this fork of Newtonsoft.Json. This is still true for their latest release of v3.0.1. This means that by switching over to their official package you will get:

I will continue to provide as much support as I can bare in my free time in the issues and discussions, however, please focus your support tickets towards https://forum.unity.com/, https://answers.unity.com/, and https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/.

To get started with their official package, you can follow my installation guide here:

Installing the official UPM package

Features

Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

Is this project dead? I see no activity in a long time

Yes. Now it is. Ever since Unity adopted this package since late February 2022 to provide an officially maintained Newtonsoft.Json package to the Unity ecosystem. ♥

My goal was before to be the most up-to-date fork of Newtonsoft.Json for Unity. Unity Technologies has now taken on this role.

This repository has completed its task: to provide Newtonsoft.Json. And is now that it's fully endorced by Unity themselves, I can happily deprecate this project like no other.

Help! I get GUID [...] for assets '...' conflicts with: '...'

GUID [6c694cfdc33ae264fb33e0cd1c7e25cf] for asset 'Packages/jillejr.newtonsoft.json-for-unity/Plugins/Newtonsoft.Json AOT/Newtonsoft.Json.dll' conflicts with:
  'Packages/com.unity.nuget.newtonsoft-json/Runtime/AOT/Newtonsoft.Json.dll' (current owner)
We can't assign a new GUID because the asset is in an immutable folder. The asset will be ignored.

This is because Unity's package, com.unity.nuget.newtonsoft-json, and this package exists in the project at the same time. This is not supported, and there's no direct plans on making this work.

You have to sadly uninstall this package, jillejr.newtonsoft.json-for-unity, and rely completely on their package instead.

diff --git a/Packages/manifest.json b/Packages/manifest.json
index 49a3afa..f0edd27 100644
--- a/Packages/manifest.json
+++ b/Packages/manifest.json
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     "com.unity.collab-proxy": "1.2.16",
     "com.unity.test-framework": "1.1.22",
     "com.unity.ugui": "1.0.0",
-    "jillejr.newtonsoft.json-for-unity": "13.0.102",
+    "com.unity.nuget.newtonsoft-json": "3.0.1",
     "jillejr.newtonsoft.json-for-unity.converters": "1.0.0",
     "com.unity.modules.ai": "1.0.0",
     "com.unity.modules.androidjni": "1.0.0",

Read more: https://github.com/jilleJr/Newtonsoft.Json-for-Unity/issues/111#issuecomment-813319182

What's the status of this repo vs com.unity.nuget.newtonsoft-json?

I've tried so summarize it as best I can over at https://github.com/jilleJr/Newtonsoft.Json-for-Unity/issues/145

Installation

Installation of the official UPM package

I've written documentation on installing the new officially adopted fork (of my fork) of Newtonsoft.Json, which can be found here: https://github.com/jilleJr/Newtonsoft.Json-for-Unity/wiki/Install-official-via-UPM

Deprecated installations

Installation via Package Installer (experimental)

  1. Click here to download Install-jillejr.newtonsoft.json-for-unity-13.0.102.unitypackage

  2. Open the downloaded .unitypackage file in Unity. Easiestly done by drag'n'dropping the file into the Unity window.

  3. Click "Import" to import it all.

  4. Once the installer has successfully compiled, it will add the correct UPM registry and package to your project, followed by removing itself.

The installer does not run until your project can successfully compile. Make sure to resolve all syntax- and other compiling errors, even just temporarily, so that the installer may execute.

Much love :heart: to @needle-tools for making such a great tool!

Installation via OpenUPM OpenUPM icon

openupm add jillejr.newtonsoft.json-for-unity

Full installation guide over at the wiki: Installation via OpenUPM OpenUPM icon

Much love :heart: to @favoyang for making such a great tool!

Installation via pure UPM

Full installation guide over at the wiki: Installation via pure UPM

Installation via Git in UPM

You can also install via Git. This assumes you have Git installed on your computer.

This is the least recommended version (but works as a fallback) because:

  • You will not be able to update the package via the Package Manager interface if you install via Git.

  • This requires you, your coworkers, and your CI/CD pipelines to have Git installed for the project to build.

  • It takes a lot longer to install as UPM will in most version clone the entire history of the project.

In later versions of Unity, you can import directly via the Package Manager interface.

UPM, add from Git URL dropdown

Supply the following URL:

https://github.com/jilleJr/Newtonsoft.Json-for-Unity.git#upm

Full installation guide over at the wiki: Installation via Git in UPM

Newtonsoft.Json-for-Unity specific links

Newtonsoft.Json links

Contributing

Thankful that you're even reading this :)

If you want to contribute, here's what you can do:

Development

Building

These docs have been moved to ./ci/README.md.

Linting markdown

All pull requests must comply with the remark styling rules found in the .remarkrc files within this repo. The .md files are linted automatically by Codacy, but to run them locally you must first install some prerequisites:

  1. Install NPM

  2. Install remark-cli and some styling packages

    # You may need to add "sudo"
npm install --global remark-cli

# Intentionally not globally
npm install remark-lint remark-preset-lint-markdown-style-guide remark-frontmatter

Then lint away! For example:

$ remark .github
.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md: no issues found
.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.md: no issues found
.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/not-working-as-expected.md: no issues found
.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/question.md: no issues found
.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/code-update.md: no issues found
.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/docs-update.md: no issues found

Merging changes from JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json

Common enough occurrence that we have a wiki page for just this.

Read the Working with branches, section "Merging changes from JamesNKs repo" wiki page.

Backporting changes

Most changes to this repo can be applied to all the different versions. For example changes to the link.xml or bugfixes in the IL2CPP hotfixes should be applied to all the different versions, 10.0.3, 11.0.2, 12.0.3, etc.

This repo has a .backportrc.json file that is used by the sqren/backport CLI to make this easier. It is a tool that basically just does git cherry-pick, but with some other features such as automatically create branches and PRs.

  1. Install Node.js: https://nodejs.org/en/download/

  2. Install the backport CLI globally

    npm install -g backport

  3. Configure the backport tool. It needs a GitHub access token and username inside ~/.backport/config.json.

    More info here: https://github.com/sqren/backport/blob/master/docs/configuration.md#global-config-backportconfigjson

  4. After a PR merge, checkout master and pull the newly merged PR you want to backport, then run the backport CLI. It's interactive, so just follow the steps.

    git checkout master

git pull

# The tool is interactive. Choose the merge commit you want to backport
# and it takes care of the rest.
backport

Shameless plug

This project, giving a stable Newtonsoft.Json experience to the Unity community, is a hobby project for me and will always stay free.

If this tool gave you something you value, consider giving a coin back into this tool. Sponsor me with a cup of coffee, I drink the cheap stuff! ☕

OpenCollective donar link

This package is licensed under The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright © 2019 Kalle Jillheden (jilleJr)
https://github.com/jilleJr/Newtonsoft.Json-for-Unity

See full copyrights in LICENSE.md inside repository