Parsing JSON using Json.net

Question

I\'m trying to parse some JSON using the JSon.Net library. The documentation seems a little sparse and I\'m confused as to how to accomplish what I need. Here is the forma

Answer 1

(This question came up high on a search engine result, but I ended up using a different approach. Adding an answer to this old question in case other people with similar questions read this)

You can solve this with Json.Net and make an extension method to handle the items you want to loop:

public static Tuple ToTuple(this JToken token)
{
    var type = token["attributes"]["OBJECT_TYPE"].ToString();
    var x = token["position"]["x"].Value();
    var y = token["position"]["y"].Value();
    return new Tuple(type, x, y);
}

And then access the data like this: (scenario: writing to console):

var tuples = JObject.Parse(myJsonString)["objects"].Select(item => item.ToTuple()).ToList();
tuples.ForEach(t => Console.WriteLine("{0}: ({1},{2})", t.Item1, t.Item2, t.Item3));