How to get property from dynamic JObject programmatically

Question

I\'m parsing a JSON string using the NewtonSoft JObject. How can I get values from a dynamic object programmatically? I want to simplify the code to not repeat myself for ev

Answer 1

with dynamic keyword like below:

private static JsonSerializerSettings jsonSettings;

private static T Deserialize<T>(string jsonData)
{
   return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>(jsonData, jsonSettings);
}

//if you know what will return

var jresponse = Deserialize<SearchedData>(testJsonString);

//if you know return object type you should sign it with json attributes like

[JsonObject(MemberSerialization = MemberSerialization.OptIn)]
public class SearchedData
{
    [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "Currency")]
    public string Currency { get; set; }
    [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "Routes")]
    public List<List<Route>> Routes { get; set; }
}

// if you don't know the return type use dynamic as generic type

var jresponse = Deserialize<dynamic>(testJsonString);

Answer 2

Another way of targeting this is by using SelectToken (Assuming that you're using Newtonsoft.Json):

JObject json = GetResponse();
var name = json.SelectToken("items[0].name");

For a full documentation: https://www.newtonsoft.com/json/help/html/SelectToken.htm

Answer 3

Assuming you're using the Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject, you don't need to use dynamic. The JObject class can take a string indexer, just like a dictionary:

JObject myResult = GetMyResult();
returnObject.Id = myResult["string here"]["id"];

Hope this helps!