Parsing field name with a colon in JSON

Question

How can we parse if json fields contains a colon(:)? Like this:

{
  \"dc:creator\":\"Jordan, Micheal\",
  \"element:publicationName\":\"Applied Ergonomics\"         


        

Answer 1

Using Json.Net

string json = @"{
            ""dc:creator"":""Jordan, Micheal"",
            ""element:publicationName"":""Applied Ergonomics"",
            ""element:issn"":""2839749823""
        }";

var pub = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Publication>(json);

---

public class Publication
{
    [JsonProperty("dc:creator")]
    public string creator { set; get; }
    [JsonProperty("element:publicationName")]
    public string publicationName { set; get; }
    [JsonProperty("element:issn")]
    public string issn { set; get; }
}

OR

Console.WriteLine(JObject.Parse(json)["dc:creator"]);

Answer 2

If you use DataContractJsonSerializer, DataMemberAttribute has property Name which can be used to override default name. This means that when you deserialize json value of property dc:creator is assigned to Publication::Creator property and on the contrary when you serialize C# object.

For example:

public class Publication
{
    [DataMember(Name="dc:creator")]
    public string Creator { set; get; }
    [DataMember(Name="element:publicationName")]
    public string PublicationName { set; get; }
    [DataMember(Name="element:issn")]
    public string Issn { set; get; }
}

If you choose to use Json.Net, @L.B's answer is the way to go.