Indentation is already tracked in:

• Non script files affected by indentation conversion #86092

So this should focus on the number formatting

Hello, I think I'll try my hand at this one, if everyone's alright with that. I have an assignment at school where I have to contribute to a large open-source project. I will focus on number formatting, as suggested. Could I be assigned, please?

With Godot 4.4 not only the indents get changed, but also all number values get a ".0" if they were integer.

I will focus on number formatting, as suggested.

In my opinion this doesn't need fixing. The JSON spec does not distinguish between int and float, so both 1 and 1.0 are correct. But the trailing .0 makes things more obvious. We deliberately included this change in 4.4, see #47502 for details.

When saving JSON in 4.4 the stringification result changed, this is expected. I think the only debate here is whether the editor should automatically save and therefore reformat all *.json files, even if the user has not re-saved them. Note that if you change a JSON resource in the inspector and save it, it will be reformatted anyway.

Could I be assigned, please?

You can start work without being assigned, we rarely use this GitHub feature. Sometimes priority issues are assigned to maintainers and active contributors, but it would be hard for us to track the progress on thousands of issues from hundreds of volunteer contributors.

If you have trouble choosing an issue, you can look at the good first issue label, an issue triage project for the area of ​​the engine you are interested in, or ask in the contributors chat. Good luck!

I think the only debate here is whether the editor should automatically save and therefore reformat all *.json files

Could this be a user-selected setting maybe? Perhaps under Project Settings -> General -> FileSystem -> Import ?

I am all for an option to disable JSON resaving AND for an option to disable reformatting. My question still would be, why reformatting at all? What's the benefit?

I find it surprising that Godot has to overwrite the JSON for any reason in the first place. This will cause plenty of file locking issues on Windows. Due to this, Godot should not be rewriting source files. If it has to perform any rewriting, it should be strictly contained to .godot/. This is why the import system exists 🙂

I guess what's happening here is that json is part of the TextFile extensions, so if you open the JSON in the script editor and run the scene, the usual indentation or trailing whitespace changes configured in the Editor Settings will apply. That part is intended. If you don't want this to happen, disable Save Before Running in the Editor Settings.

Is there a way to handle the issue where my ID fields, which are currently of type int/long, are being converted to float and causing all HTTP calls to the server using that ID to fail? For example, my server response looks like: {"id": 1234}, but when it's passed through Godot, it becomes 'id' = 1234.0, and if I send this ID back to the server, it results in a conversion error.

@duongxinh2003 That's a separate issue and that's because JSON doesn't work the way you think it does. It doesn't have integers