Enttiies not spawning

[Swiftone]

I am trying to get entities to spawn from a text file but I can't seem to get it working. To top it off its not throwing any errors and I am out of ideas now =X

concommand.Add("test_write", function()
	if ( !file.IsDir( "testing", "DATA" ) ) then file.CreateDir( "testing" ) end 
	local Map = game.GetMap()
	local filename =  "testing/"..Map..".txt"

	local BlockPositions = {}
	for k, v in pairs( ents.FindByModel( "models/hunter/blocks/cube1x1x025.mdl") ) do
		template = { class=v:GetClass(), pos=v:GetPos() }
		table.insert( BlockPositions, template  )
	end

	local towrite = util.TableToJSON( BlockPositions ) 
	file.Write( filename, ("\n"..towrite) )

	if file.Exists( filename, "DATA" ) then 
		local str = file.Read( filename, "DATA" ) 
		local thetable = util.JSONToTable( str ) -- Convert JSON formatted string back to a table
		PrintTable( thetable ) 
	end
end )


concommand.Add ("test_spawn", function()
	local Map = game.GetMap()
	local filename =  "testing/"..Map..".txt"
	local str = file.Read( filename, "DATA" ) 
	local thetable = util.JSONToTable( str )
	
	for k,v in ipairs(thetable) do
	local pos = v.pos
	local entType = v.class
	print(pos)
	
		newEnt = ents.Create( entType )
		newEnt:SetPos( Vector( pos ) )
		newEnt:Spawn()
		newEnt:Activate()
		
end
end)

[Rubat]

We can't help you with out the code you are using to save the file.

[Swiftone]

Updated original post. Sorry I was trying to keep it as simple as possible.

[Rubat]

Okay, If you had looked into the console, you'd have known the problem:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/inkDjdL.jpg[/img]

Then, you are doing some incorrect things in your code:

file.Write( filename, ("\n"..towrite) )

You absolutely don't need to add "\n" there, just do

file.Write( filename, towrite )

And lastly

newEnt:SetPos( Vector( pos ) )

TableToJSON and JSONToTable save the variable type, you don't need to do anything like that, just do

newEnt:SetPos( pos )

And by the way, you don't need to define variables for everything. Here's fixed code

concommand.Add("test_write", function()
	if ( !file.IsDir( "testing", "DATA" ) ) then file.CreateDir( "testing" ) end 

	local BlockPositions = {}
	for k, v in pairs( ents.FindByModel( "models/hunter/blocks/cube1x1x025.mdl") ) do
		table.insert( BlockPositions, { class = v:GetClass(), pos = v:GetPos() } )
	end

	file.Write( "testing/" .. game.GetMap()  .. ".txt", util.TableToJSON( BlockPositions ) )
end )


concommand.Add ("test_spawn", function()
	local str = file.Read( "testing/" .. game.GetMap() .. ".txt", "DATA" ) 
	local thetable = util.JSONToTable( str )
	
	for k, v in ipairs( thetable ) do
		newEnt = ents.Create( v.class )
		newEnt:SetPos( v.pos )
		newEnt:SetModel( "models/hunter/blocks/cube1x1x025.mdl" )
		newEnt:Spawn()
		newEnt:Activate()
	end
end)

[Swiftone]

Sorry I didn't see that error I was running a listen server, were you running a dedicated? Ya the variables were shit it was in a hectic testing phase :p Thanks for breaking down I really appreciate it!

Thanks again!