Performing simple network call to retreive JSON in Unity?

Question

I have looked at the network documentation for Unity and most examples seem to be related to networking your game for multiplayer. I am just looking to grab a JSON response from an API for dynamically generating a menu.

Are there some good examples for doing just simple network calls to get a response from a web server?

Answer 1

You go through the WWW class.

http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/WWW.html

You can do a GET or POST through that, and get the .text from the result when it finishes downloading. There are several C# JSON decoders that you can use instead of parsing the result yourself.