Deserialize JSON to?

Question

I have JSON which I need to deserialize, but I don't want to create class with property name.

here's what I get in JSON:

"[{"id":1,"width":100,"sortable":true}, {"id":"Change","width":100,"sortable":true}]"

So how could I do this?

Thanks for advance:)

Which language are you using, c# You can use dynamic class [link][1] [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3142495/deserialize-json-into-c-sharp-dynamic-object — unarity, Dec 06 '12 at 09:52
I have Newtonsoft.Json It's provided with Nhibernate i guess — Harry89pl, Dec 06 '12 at 10:06
Newtonsoft.Json is used by a lot of libraries. And you can get it very simply with NuGet — Falanwe, Dec 06 '12 at 10:08

L.B · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-06T09:57:39.600

3

You can use JavaScriptSerializer

var list = new JavaScriptSerializer()
                  .Deserialize<List<Dictionary<string, object>>>(json);

var id = list[0]["id"];

Or if you want, Json.Net

var list2 = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Dictionary<string, object>>>(json);

Json.Net also allows you to use dynamic

dynamic list = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json);
var wdth = list[0].width;

edited Dec 06 '12 at 09:57

answered Dec 06 '12 at 09:52

L.B

114,136
19
178
224

Falanwe · Answer 2 · 2012-12-06T10:12:01.763

Using Json.net, you can deserialize directly to an anonymous class:

var json = "[{\"id\":1,\"width\":100,\"sortable\":true}, \"id\":\"Change\",\"width\":100,\"sortable\":true}]";

var myExempleObject = new {id = new object(), width = 0, sortable = false};

var myArray = JsonConvert.DeserializeAnonymousType(json, new[] {myExempleObject});

I'm assuming here id can be any object (as in your exemple it can be an int or a string), width must be an int and sortable must be a boolean.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 06 '12 at 09:50

You may use json.net

I am not sure if it is what you are looking for.

   string json = @"{
    'CPU': 'Intel',
    'PSU': '500W',
    'Drives': [
      'DVD read/writer'
      /*(broken)*/,
      '500 gigabyte hard drive',
      '200 gigabype hard drive'
    ]
}";

JsonTextReader reader = new JsonTextReader(new StringReader(json));
while (reader.Read())
{
  if (reader.Value != null)
    Console.WriteLine("Token: {0}, Value: {1}", reader.TokenType, reader.Value);
  else
    Console.WriteLine("Token: {0}", reader.TokenType);
}

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 06 '12 at 09:55

using System;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        string json = "[{\"id\":1,\"width\":100,\"sortable\":true}, {\"id\":\"Change\",\"width\":100,\"sortable\":true}]";
        JArray array = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json) as JArray;
        if (array != null)
        {
            foreach (JObject jObj in array)
                Console.WriteLine("{0,10} | {1,10} | {2,10}", jObj["id"], jObj["width"], jObj["sortable"]);
        }
        Console.ReadKey(true);
    }
}

Deserialize JSON to?

4 Answers4