Edit The JsonContentTypeReader

On the previous page we discussed the anatomy of a ContentTypeReader. Now that we have an understanding of this, let's make the changes necessary to our JsonContentTypeReader class so that it reads the .xnb file.and returns back the expected result.

Open the JsonContentTypeReader.cs file and make the following adjustments:

using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content;
using System.Text.Json;

namespace JsonContentPipeline
{
    public class JsonContentTypeReader<T> : ContentTypeReader<T>
    {
        protected override T Read(ContentReader input, T existingInstance)
        {
            string json = input.ReadString();
            T result = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<T>(json);
            return result;
        }
    }
}

For the purposes of the example being used in this tutorial, there was not much we needed to adjust here. We simply just needed the Read(ContentReader, T) method to to read the JSON string from the .xnb file and then serialize it to the T type object and return it.

Next Steps

That's all for our JsonContentTypeReader. It simply just reads the JSON string from the .xnb file and serializes it, then returns the object type.

Now that we have all of this setup, the next step is going to be creating a game project that we can use to test all of this and make sure it's working correctly.