How to deserialize JSON with duplicate property names in the same object

Question

I have a JSON string that I expect to contain duplicate keys that I am unable to make JSON.NET happy with.

I was wondering if anybody knows the best way (maybe usin

Answer 1

You should not be using a generic type of object, it should be a more specific type.

However you json is malformed which is you rmain problem

You have :

"{ \"HiThere\":1, \"HiThere\":2, \"HiThere\":3 }"

But it should be:

"{"HiTheres": [{\"HiThere\":1}, {\"HiThere\":2}, {\"HiThere\":3} ]}"

Or

"{ \"HiThereOne\":1, \"HiThereTwo\":2, \"HiThereThree\":3 }"

You json is one object with 3 fields with all the same name ("HiThere"). Which wont work.

The json I have shown gives: An array (HiTheres) of three objects each with a field of HiThere Or One object with three field with different names. (HiThereOne, HiThereTwo, "HiThereThree)

Have a look at http://jsoneditoronline.org/index.html And http://json.org/