Save and Load through user text input not working

Question

I want users to be able to save and load their data (json) by entering the data inside the game.

Here's what I have so far:

var dictionary = {}
var loaddictionary

func _on_CopySaveCode_pressed():
    for i in range(1, 83):
        dictionary[str(i)] = {
            "L1": DataImport.player_data_save[str(i)].L1,
            "CLVL": DataImport.player_data_save[str(i)].CLVL,
            }
    OS.set_clipboard(str(dictionary))

func _on_PasteLoadCode_text_entered(new_text):
    loaddictionary = new_text
    var d = Directory.new()
    if not d.dir_exists("user://test"):
        d.make_dir("user://test")
    var file = File.new()
    file.open("user://test/PlayerData.json", File.WRITE)
    file.store_string(to_json(loaddictionary))
    file.close()

The first problem is that when it's copied to clipboard, it doesn't copy each dictionary[str(i)] as a key. For example, it just adds it as 1 instead of "1"

The second problem is that the file is written as a string instead of a dictionary. So the whole dictionary is wrapped around "" when it should be {}

Answer 1

To get the double quotes to show up when pasted from the clipboard, you can encase them with single quotes and use string formatting to put your key inside like so: '"%s"' % str(i)

func _on_CopySaveCode_pressed():
    for i in range(1, 83):
        dictionary['"%s"' % str(i)] = {

If want the values to also show up with quotes, you can do the same here

            "L1": '"%s"' % str(DataImport.player_data_save[str(i)].L1),
            "CLVL": '"%s"' % str(DataImport.player_data_save[str(i)].CLVL),
            }
    OS.set_clipboard(str(dictionary))

To save the file as json use file.store_line() instead of file.store_string()

func _on_PasteLoadCode_text_entered(new_text):
    loaddictionary = new_text
    var d = Directory.new()
    if not d.dir_exists("user://test"):
        d.make_dir("user://test")
    var file = File.new()
    file.open("user://test/PlayerData.json", File.WRITE)
    file.store_line(to_json(loaddictionary))
    file.close()

Comments

Thanks for the help. The first part works and everything looks as intended when I paste in notepad. However, the file output is still not right. It's outputting the following:

"{\"1\":{\"CLVL\":1, \"L1\":1}..."

It still has the quotation marks at the beginning and at the end. And now it has the \ for some reason. I'm using LineEdit for the input.