Go from filepath to JSON object

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Godot Version 4.3

I have a dialogue scene saved with a script attached to it’s root with @export var dalogue_json : JSON in it.

this is easy to work with in the godot editor. I put that scene in and I can just drag a json file onto the node and done.

Now I want to start creating such dialogue scenes from another gdscript though.
Something like this:

extends Node

@onready var dialogue_scn = preload("res://scenes/dialogue/dialogue.tscn")

func start_dialogue(path_to_json: String):
	var dialogue_obj: DialogueBox = dialogue_box_scn.instantiate()
	dialogue_obj.dialogue_json = get_json(path_to_json)
	add_child(dialogue_box_obj)

func get_json(path_to_json: String) -> JSON:
	**Please help me create this function**

I cannot seem to get from a filepath to a JSON object. Wherever I look, people always seem to want to get to a Dictionary, or just a string.

I can go from a filepath to a String with the contents of that file using FileAcess, but then how to go from String to JSON? Any help is much appreciated!

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A JSON by itself is just a string, you need to parse said string to get it as a JSON object that you can turn into an instance or data you can use easily.

The docs have some great examples on how to read a file, then parse that as a json.