Deserialize nested JSON into C# objects

Question

I am getting JSON back from an API that looks like this:

{
  \"Items\": {
    \"Item322A\": [{
      \"prop1\": \"string\",
      \"prop2\": \"string\",
             


        

Answer 1

You could use Json.Parse so that you can query into the data -- and just use the single model.

private class Info
{
    public string Prop1 { get; set; }
    public string Prop2 { get; set; }
    public int Prop3 { get; set; }
    public bool Prop4 { get; set; }
}

var result = JObject.Parse(resultContent);   //parses entire stream into JObject, from which you can use to query the bits you need.
var items = result["Items"].Children().ToList();   //Get the sections you need and save as enumerable (will be in the form of JTokens)

List infoList = new List();  //init new list to store the objects.

//iterate through the list and match to an object. If Property names don't match -- you could also map the properties individually. Also useful if you need to dig out nested properties.
foreach(var subItem in items){
foreach(JToken result in subItem){
Info info = result.ToObject();
infoList.add(info);
}}