I have JSON file that contains certain specifications for the script I am running. It is in sense a config file. this config file contains some informations that I would like end-user to be able to update through HTML like in a form or simply a few drop-down menus with prepopulated values.
Here is my JSON file I put together:
{
"increment_fill_level": [
{
"type": "LineCount",
"direction": "forward",
"name": "Line 0"
}
],
"decrement_fill_level": [
{
"type": "LineCount",
"direction": "backward",
"name": "Line 0"
}
],
"trigger": [
{
"type": "LineCrossing",
"direction": "forward",
"name": "Trigger"
}
],
"capacity_maximum": 5,
"capacity_warning_threshold": 2,
"capacity_stop_threshold": 0,
"capacity_reset_time": 1000000000,
"reset_hour": 13,
"reset_min": 39
}
Now, the only values that I want to be updated are
capacity_maximum - this should be any whole numeric number.
reset_hour - this should be 0,1,2,3....23h as a drop-down
reset_min - this should be from 0-59 number
So far I have this JSON saved at a specific location but what I have been struggling now is to figure out how to update the values within json file from the selected value in HTML.
Any ideas on how to do this?