Remove specific properties from JSON object

Question

I have a JSON:

{
    \"scbs_currentstatus\": \"\",
      \"scbs_primaryissue\": \"\",
      \"_umb_id\": \"Test\",
      \"_umb_creator\": \"Admin\",
      \         


        

Answer 1

I just ended up deserializing to JObject and recursively looping through that to remove unwanted fields. Here's the function for those interested.

private void removeFields(JToken token, string[] fields)
{
JContainer container = token as JContainer;
if (container == null) return;

List removeList = new List();
foreach (JToken el in container.Children())
{
    JProperty p = el as JProperty;
    string propertyName = p.hasOwnProperty(key);

    if (p != null && fields.Contains(p.propertyName) && p.propertyName.substring(0,4) == "_umb" )
    {
        removeList.Add(el);
    }
    removeFields(el, fields);
}

foreach (JToken el in removeList)
{
    el.Remove();
}
}