Deserialize ever changing JSON object name in C#

Question

The endpoint I'm requesting from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&prop=extracts&exintro=&explaintext=&titles=eminem

If you look at the JSON inside the Pages Object there's another Object which is the id of the wikipedia article. And in my project, I won't be only parsing Eminem's page but other singers/artists. So my question is how can I go and parse this ever changing json object name?

My json as c# classes

public class ArticleRootobject {
    public string batchcomplete { get; set; }
    public Query query { get; set; }
}

public class Query {
    public Normalized[] normalized { get; set; }
    public Pages pages { get; set; }
}

public class Pages {
    public _4429395 _4429395 { get; set; }
}

public class Normalized{
    public string from { get; set; }
    public string to { get; set; }
}

Thanks for the help

Use a dictionary for `pages` as shown in [Create a strongly typed c# object from json object with ID as the name](https://stackoverflow.com/q/34213566/3744182). — dbc, Apr 15 '17 at 16:39

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 15 '17 at 16:38

Depending on what library you are using for the deserialisation, You could declare Pages property on Query as a Dictionary<string,[contentObject]>. You will need to make a class for the contentObject with the relevant properties (pageId,ns,title etc).

http://www.newtonsoft.com/json/help/html/DeserializeDictionary.htm

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 15 '17 at 16:44

You can define your pages property of Query as Dictionary<string, Page> and define a class for Page:

public class Query
{
    public Normalized[] normalized { get; set; }
    public Dictionary<string, Page> pages { get; set; }
}

public class Page
{
    public int pageid { get; set; }
    public int ns { get; set; }
    public string title { get; set; }
    public string extract { get; set; }
}

Deserialize ever changing JSON object name in C#

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