Search for a nested value inside of a JSON.net object in C#

Question

I\'ve got a JSON stream coming back from a server, and I need to search for a specific value of the node \"ID\" using JSON.net to parse the data. And I can almost make it wo

Answer 1

Simply write a recursive function:

private Thing FindThing(Thing thing, string name)
{
    if (thing.name == name)
        return thing;
    foreach (var subThing in thing.childFolders.Concat(thing.childComponents))
    {
        var foundSub = FindThing(subThing, name);
        if (foundSub != null)
            return foundSub;
    }
    return null;
}

class RootObject
{
    public Thing data { get; set; }
}

class Thing
{
    public int id { get; set; }
    public string name { get; set; }
    public List childFolders { get; set; } = new List();
    public List childComponents { get; set; } = new List();
}

And using it:

var obj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(jsonString);
var result = FindThing(obj.data, "route3");