Convert JObject into Dictionary. Is it possible?

Question

I have a web API method that accepts an arbitrary json payload into a JObject property. As such I don\'t know what\'s coming but I still need to translate it to

Answer 1

I ended up using a mix of both answers as none really nailed it.

ToObject() can do the first level of properties in a JSON object, but nested objects won't be converted to Dictionary().

There's also no need to do everything manually as ToObject() is pretty good with first level properties.

Here is the code:

public static class JObjectExtensions
{
    public static IDictionary ToDictionary(this JObject @object)
    {
        var result = @object.ToObject>();

        var JObjectKeys = (from r in result
                           let key = r.Key
                           let value = r.Value
                           where value.GetType() == typeof(JObject)
                           select key).ToList();

        var JArrayKeys = (from r in result
                          let key = r.Key
                          let value = r.Value
                          where value.GetType() == typeof(JArray)
                          select key).ToList();

        JArrayKeys.ForEach(key => result[key] = ((JArray)result[key]).Values().Select(x => ((JValue)x).Value).ToArray());
        JObjectKeys.ForEach(key => result[key] = ToDictionary(result[key] as JObject));

        return result;
    }
}

It might have edge cases where it won't work and the performance is not the strongest quality of it.

Thanks guys!