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How to use objects with Unity Cloud Save

A lot of developers trip up on how best to seralize and deseralize data when using Unity Cloud Save, specifically they often save objects as strings rather saving them directly as objects and sometimes run into problems as a result.

This happens either because people are used to how versions of the Cloud Save SDK used to work, because they don't realise that you can save objects without converting them to a string, or because they don't realise that the approach they are using causes them to be seralized.

If saved as a string instead of directly as an object, data can be more complicated to work with than it needs to be, you won't be able to use features like filters to query on the saved data and if you are viewing in somewhere like the Unity Cloud Dashboard it will just be rendered as a single long escaped string (which is hard to read and even harder to edit).

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How to use Cloud Save to find and match players

This guide describes how you can use Unity Cloud Save to find players by name (or any other property).

This functionality is supported in Cloud Save SDK for Unity and the C# and JavaScript SDKs for Unity Cloud Code.

1. Create Indexes for the keys you want to query on

Before saving data, first define an Index for the keys you want to query on (e.g. in the Unity Cloud Dashboard or using the Unity CLI) so that you can query on these keys.

How to use Cloud Save to find players using Queries

This is an example of how to do you can find a player using data stored in Unity Cloud Save by using Indexes and Queries.

This is supported in Cloud Save SDK for Unity and the C# and JavaScript SDK for Unity Cloud Code.

1. Create Indexes for the keys you want to query on

Before saving data, first define an Index for the keys you want to query on (e.g. in the Unity Cloud Dashboard or using the Unity CLI) so that you can query on these keys in the next step.

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To claim this, I am signing this object:

	using UnityEngine;
	using Unity.Services.Authentication;
	using Unity.Services.Authentication.PlayerAccounts;
	using Unity.Services.Core;

	public class SignInWithUnityExample : MonoBehaviour
	{
	async void Awake()
	{
	await UnityServices.InitializeAsync();

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	// Long form example
	const pizzas = [
	{
	name: 'Margarita',
	toppings: ['Cheese', 'Tomato']
	},
	{
	name: 'Hawaiian',
	toppings: ['Cheese', 'Tomato', 'Ham', 'Pineapple']
	},

	name: Deploy on push to master
	on:
	push:
	branches:
	- master
	jobs:
	deploy:
	name: deploy
	runs-on: ubuntu-latest
	steps:

	// 1. Add your API key and secret below
	// 2. Run `npm i flickrapi` to install the SDK dependency
	// 3. Run 'node auth.js` and follow the instructions
	// (will open browser window, need to paste number back in terminal and copy entire output)
	const Flickr = require('flickrapi')

	const FLICKR_API_KEY = 'YOUR-API-KEY'
	const FLICKR_SECRET = 'YOUR-API-SECRET'

	Flickr.authenticate({