Roku Developer Program

[youssefsherif]

how can i create a rowlist and import the data from a json file?

i would like the rowlist item to have 2 labels and a poster that are loaded from the json file 

how can i set the data from the json file to it

[philanderson777]

You have to 

1) create background task

2) gather the XML or JSON data and parse it (from the internet) and then put that data into the 'contentNode' of whatever object you are rendering.  Final step is to set the contentNode of your component equal to the contentNode containing all of your gathered data.

this is quite a complex all-in-one example ...

https://gist.github.com/timbeynart-nbcuni/c73989ff347b101ef4176b8c104f82af

[philanderson777]

This one illustrates the super-simple contentNode principle for a video player

https://community.roku.com/t5/Roku-Developer-Program/VideoExample-playing-from-json/td-p/507410

[philanderson777]

This one illustrates how to do it if all of the json data was already held locally and was static

https://community.roku.com/t5/Roku-Developer-Program/task-node-data-loading-from-a-json-file/td-p/84...

[philanderson777]

Another one where data is held locally

https://github.com/rokucommunity/sample-projects/blob/669d4c2855d7bed3dc7eb4c62ec84c134f5c6462/stand...

[philanderson777]

Official docs (uses XML rather than JSON)

https://developer.roku.com/en-gb/docs/developer-program/core-concepts/downloading-server-content.md

https://developer.roku.com/en-gb/docs/references/scenegraph/control-nodes/contentnode.md

https://github.com/rokudev/samples/tree/master/ux%20components/control/ContentNodeExample