Create Object from dictionary with Json

Question

How to serialize Dictionary to json object

 var dict = new Dictionary<string, string>()
        {
            {"Username", "{Username}"},
            {"FirstName", "{FirstName}"},
            {"LastName", "{LastName}"},
            {"AccountMeta[0].MetaKey", "Pincode"},
            {"AccountMeta[0].MetaValue", "150000"},

        };
public class Account {
    public string Username {get;set;}
    public string FirstName{get;set;}
    public string LastName {get;set;}
    public List<AccountMeta> AccountMeta {get;set;}
}

And Objects:

public class AccountMeta{
     public string MetaKey {get;set;}
     public string MetaValue{get;set;}
 }

Possible duplicate of [Serialize .NET Dictionary into JSON Key Value Pair Object](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5124889/serialize-net-dictionarystring-string-into-json-key-value-pair-object) — Kevin Avignon, Oct 21 '15 at 19:17
It's not duplicate. AccountMeta is List. AccountMeta[0].MetaKey AccountMeta[1].MetaKey — Givi Bibileishvili, Oct 21 '15 at 19:27
@GiviBibileishvili so you want to serialize a list into a dictionary? — alstonp, Oct 21 '15 at 19:40
@alstonp No i wont to create account object from this dictionary. Dictionary contains list accountmeta — Givi Bibileishvili, Oct 21 '15 at 19:48

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 21 '15 at 23:56

Use the library Newtonsoft.Json here

Manages serialization of any kind of objects gracefully and its free.

The Json format provides an standard way to serialize arrays and neasted objects, and it doesn't support for object paths. So your aproach for serializing Lists as "List[index]" = "value" and object properties as "Object.Property" = "Value" style would not work

Install the package: Newtonsoft.Json Example of use:

Dictionary<string, string> dictionary = ...;
string Json = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(dictionary);

MyClass Result = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<MyClass >();

Create Object from dictionary with Json

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