How to extract a list from appsettings.json in .net core

Question

I have an appsettings.json file which looks like this:

{
    \"someSetting\": {
        \"subSettings\": [
            \"one\",
            \"two\",
                 


        

Answer 1

var settingsSection = config.GetSection["someSettings:subSettings"];
var subSettings = new List;

foreach (var section in settingsSection.GetChildren())
{
    subSettings.Add(section.Value);
}

This should give you the values you need, stored in subSettings

Apologies for bringing up a semi-old thread. I had difficulty finding an answer as a good amount of methods are deprecated, like Get and GetValue. This should be fine if you only need a simple solution without the configuration binder. :)