Converting dynamic type to dictionary C#

Question

I have a dynamic object that looks like this,

 {
    \"2\" : \"foo\",
    \"5\" : \"bar\",
    \"8\" : \"foobar\"
 }

How can I convert this

Answer 1

If the dynamic value in question was created via deserialization from Json.Net as you mentioned in your comments, then it should be a JObject. It turns out that JObject already implements IDictionary, so you can use it as a dictionary without any conversion, as shown below:

string json = 
     @"{ ""blah"" : { ""2"" : ""foo"", ""5"" : ""bar"", ""8"" : ""foobar"" } }";

var dict = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject>(json);
dynamic dyn = dict["blah"];

Console.WriteLine(dyn.GetType().FullName);     // Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject
Console.WriteLine(dyn["2"].ToString());        // foo

If you would rather have a Dictionary instead, you can convert it like this:

Dictionary newDict = 
          ((IEnumerable>)dyn)
                     .ToDictionary(kvp => kvp.Key, kvp => kvp.Value.ToString());