File.openDialog(); What is the result? What if I only have the path?

[dublove]

Whether it's an object or a path is indistinguishable.

I don't want the dialog to open, I want it to open the file pointed to by the path by default, what should I write?

var file = File.openDialog();
alert("file:" + file);
Below is the result after I choose to select "my.json":

If I don't want to do it manually, it it directly opens this path “pathToMyJSONFile” (pathToMyJSONFile = File($.fileName).parent.parent + ‘/PubLib/my.json’;)

How do I change it?
var file = File.open(pathToMyJSONFile);
This seems wrong.

alert(pathToMyJSONFile); results in this:

[dublove]

Tried it out. I tried multiple ......
Looks like this:
file = File(pathToMyJSONFile);

[rob day · Accepted solution]

Something like this would read the contents of a text file:

var p = File(Folder.desktop + "/test.json");
var t = readFile(p)
alert(t);
  
/**
* Read a text file 
* @ param the file path of the file
* @ return the text in the file
*/
function readFile(p) {
	var f = new File(p);
	f.open("r");  
	var x = f.read();  
	f.close();
	return x;
}

[dublove]

Hi rob day.

I tried out this one.
Thank you very much.

[rob day]

File.open() will not open a json or text file—open() is expecting an InDesign file path— .indt, .indd, idml