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I have an issue where if my json file looks like this

{ "Numbers": "45387", "Words": "space buckets"}

I can read it just fine, however if it looks like this:

{ "Main" :{ "Numbers": "45387", "Words": "space buckets"},
"Something" :{"Numbers": "12345", "Words": "Kransky"} }

I get no information back. I have no idea how to switch between Main and Something! Loading a JSON with this 'nested' information using this code,

var ser = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(myInfo));

var info = (myInfo)ser.ReadObject(e.Result);

// The class being using to hold my information

[DataContract] 
public class myInfo 
{ 
    [DataMember(Name="Numbers")] 
    public int number 
    { get; set; } 

    [DataMember(Name="Words")] 
    public string words 
    { get; set; } 
}

Causes the class to come back empty.
I've tried adding the group name to DataContract eg. [DataContract, Name="Main"] but this still causes the classes values to be empty.
I've also tried adding "main" to the serializer overloader eg. var ser = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(myInfo), "Main");
This causes an error: Expecting element 'Main' from namespace ''.. Encountered 'Element' with name 'root', namespace ''.
I'd prefer to just use the supplied json reader. I have looked into json.NET but have found the documentation to be heavy on writing json and sparse with information about reading. Surely I'm missing something simple here!

Trinnexx
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You could add a wrapper class:

[DataContract]
public class Wrapper
{
    [DataMember]
    public myInfo Main { get; set; }

    [DataMember]
    public myInfo Something { get; set; }
}

Now you could deserialize the JSON back to this wrapper class and use the two properties to access the values.

Darin Dimitrov
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  • HAHA! success! Darin Dimitrov your my hero! An answer in 2 mins and it worked! So simple too, I thought it might have been I just lacked the expertise. <3 <3 <3 Thank you so much! – Trinnexx Dec 18 '10 at 10:25