Deserializing JSON using JSon.NET with dynamic data

Question

I\'m trying to deserialize some JSON data into objects for an application. Up until now it\'s been fine because the properties on the JSON data was static (key with a value)

Answer 1

Here is how you do using https://github.com/facebook-csharp-sdk/simple-json ( https://nuget.org/packages/SimpleJson ).

var text = "{\"query\":{\"pages\":{\"6695\":{\"pageid\":6695,\"ns\":0,\"title\":\"Citadel\",\"touched\":\"2012-01-03T19:16:16Z\",\"lastrevid\":468683764,\"counter\":\"\",\"length\":8899}}}}";

(Using dynamic)

dynamic json = SimpleJson.DeserializeObject(text);
string title = json.query.pages["6695"].title;

foreach (KeyValuePair page in json.query.pages)
{
    var id = page.Key;
    var pageId = page.Value.pageid;
    var ns = page.Value.ns;
}

(Using strongly typed classes)

class result
{
    public query query { get; set; }
}
class query
{
    public IDictionary pages { get; set; }
}
class page
{
    public long pageid { get; set; }
    public string title { get; set; }
}

var result = SimpleJson.DeserializeObject(text);

[Update]

on windows phone where dynamic is not supported and you don't want to use strongly typed classes.

var json = (IDictionary)SimpleJson.DeserializeObject(text);
var query = (IDictionary)json["query"];
var pages = (IDictionary)query["pages"];
var pageKeys = pages.Keys;
var page = (IDictionary)pages["6695"];
var title = (string)page["title"];