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convert objects model to json in c#?

I have a object model I want to show as a json string, for example:
public class SectionD
{
public string InsertID { get; set; }
public int CaseReference { get; set; }
public string AdditionalInfo { get; set; }
public DateTime CreationDate { get; set; }
}
and I want to present this as a json object, like so:
{
"class": "SectionD",
"parameters": [
{
"key": "InsertID",
"type": "string"
},
{
"key": "CaseReference",
"type": "int"
},
{
"key": "AdditionalInfo",
"type": "string"
},
{
"key": "CreationDate",
"type": "DateTime"
}
]
}
The data is being stored as a json string in a database, and I want to provide a list of fields and types to someone who would be making database views on that data.
google provides a lot of hits for querying the contents on the model, but I can't find anything for looking at the object itself.
Thanks

How about something simple like:
public class ReflectedPropertyInfo
{
[JsonProperty("key")]
public string Key { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("type")]
public string Type { get; set; }
}
public class ReflectJson
{
public static string ReflectIntoJson<T>() where T : class
{
var type = typeof(T);
var className = type.Name;
var props = type.GetProperties(BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public);
var propertyList = new List<ReflectedPropertyInfo>();
foreach (var prop in props)
{
propertyList.Add(new ReflectedPropertyInfo{Key =prop.Name, Type =prop.PropertyType.Name});
}
var result = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new {#class = className, parameters = propertyList}, Formatting.Indented);
return result;
}
}
It uses Reflection, as suggested by #dbc. After getting the type name, it gets a collection of properties and then builds up a anonymous type containing the information in the correct format, and then serializes it. The result looks like:
{
"class": "SectionD",
"parameters": [
{
"key": "InsertID",
"type": "String"
},
{
"key": "CaseReference",
"type": "Int32"
},
{
"key": "AdditionalInfo",
"type": "String"
},
{
"key": "CreationDate",
"type": "DateTime"
}
]
}
The only difference (that I see) is that it uses the actual "Int32" as the type name for integers, rather than the C# alias "int".

Not getting result when deserializing json using DataContractJsonSerializer

I have following json:
{
"Australia": {
"count": 2,
"records": {
"File1.ppt": {
"id": "123456789"
},
"File2.doc": {
"id": "987654321"
}
}
},
"PDFs.zip": {
"count": 0,
"records": {}
},
"Peru": {
"count": 2,
"records": {
"File3.PPT": {
"id": "897456123"
},
"File4.PPT": {
"id": "123546789"
}
}
},
"total count": 4
}
and to deserialize the above json I have defined some classes so that I can use these classes while deserializing my json into objects and below are the classes:
namespace GEO_Batch_Creation
{
[DataContract]
class BhpIdJson
{
[DataMember(Name = "objects")]
public Dictionary<string, Country[]> Countries { get; set; }
[DataMember(Name = "total count")]
public int TotalCount { get; set; }
}
[DataContract]
class Country
{
[DataMember(Name = "count")]
public int Count { get; set; }
[DataMember(Name = "records")]
public Dictionary<string, Record> Records { get; set; }
}
[DataContract]
class Record
{
[DataMember(Name = "filename")]
public string FileName { get; set; }
[DataMember(Name = "id")]
public Dictionary<string, string> BhpId { get; set; }
}
}
But when I use following code to deserialize the json I am getting only total count.
using (var ms = new MemoryStream(Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(json)))
{
// Deserialization from JSON
DataContractJsonSerializer deserializer = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(BhpIdJson));
BhpIdJson bsObj2 = (BhpIdJson)deserializer.ReadObject(ms);
}
Please suggest me where I am doing mistake.

I don't think that this JSON is in correct format. I don't know if you got this from somewhere or made for yourself, but if the last one I recommend you to change the structure.
Even in C# you cant realy create a class that has the objects and the count of the object in the same List or Array etc.
Based on your class your JSON yhould look like this:
{
"objects": [
{
"name": "Australia",
"count": 2,
"records": [
{
"fileName": "File1.ppt",
"id": "123456789"
},
{
"fileName": "File2.doc",
"id": "987654321"
}
]
}
],
"total count": 4
}
As you can see you have to add Name or something to your Country class. I hope it helped.
Edit:
You can create a list like I mentioned above but it's not a good practice I think.

Form the JSON object - serialization C#

"fields": [
{
"field": {
"name": "SMS",
"value": "Yes"
}
},
{
"field": {
"name": "Email",
"value": ""
}
},
{
"field": {
"name": "Total",
"value": ""
}
},
]
I have tried to form the JSON format like above, so i formed the class like below. While serialization it does not return expected form, how can i achieve this one.
public class Test
{
public List<Field> fields;
}
public class Field
{
public string name { get; set; }
public string value { get; set; }
}
Response:
"fields": [{
"name": "SMS",
"value": "Yes"
}, {
"name": "Email",
"value": ""
},{
"name": "Total",
"value": ""
}]

Use this website http://json2csharp.com and generate all the classes automatically. Just copy-paste your json there.

You can customize resulting JSON object with anonymous types and LINQ. Please try this code:
var test = new Test {fields = new List<Field>()};
test.fields.Add(new Field {name = "f1", value = "v1"});
test.fields.Add(new Field {name = "f2", value = "v2"});
var json = JObject.FromObject(new { fields = test.fields.Select(f => new {field = f}).ToArray() })
.ToString();
A json variable would be:
{
"fields": [
{
"field": {
"name": "f1",
"value": "v1"
}
},
{
"field": {
"name": "f2",
"value": "v2"
}
}
]
}

You just missed a class level:
public class Test
{
public List<FieldHolder> fields;
}
public class FieldHolder
{
public Field field { get; set; }
}
public class Field
{
public string name { get; set; }
public string value { get; set; }
}

Cannot deserialize the JSON array (e.g. [1,2,3]) into type ' ' because type requires JSON object (e.g. {"name":"value"}) to deserialize correctly

I have this JSON:
[
{
"Attributes": [
{
"Key": "Name",
"Value": {
"Value": "Acc 1",
"Values": [
"Acc 1"
]
}
},
{
"Key": "Id",
"Value": {
"Value": "1",
"Values": [
"1"
]
}
}
],
"Name": "account",
"Id": "1"
},
{
"Attributes": [
{
"Key": "Name",
"Value": {
"Value": "Acc 2",
"Values": [
"Acc 2"
]
}
},
{
"Key": "Id",
"Value": {
"Value": "2",
"Values": [
"2"
]
}
}
],
"Name": "account",
"Id": "2"
},
{
"Attributes": [
{
"Key": "Name",
"Value": {
"Value": "Acc 3",
"Values": [
"Acc 3"
]
}
},
{
"Key": "Id",
"Value": {
"Value": "3",
"Values": [
"3"
]
}
}
],
"Name": "account",
"Id": "2"
}
]
And I have these classes:
public class RetrieveMultipleResponse
{
public List<Attribute> Attributes { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Id { get; set; }
}
public class Value
{
[JsonProperty("Value")]
public string value { get; set; }
public List<string> Values { get; set; }
}
public class Attribute
{
public string Key { get; set; }
public Value Value { get; set; }
}
I am trying to deserialize the above JSON using the code below:
var objResponse1 = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<RetrieveMultipleResponse>(JsonStr);
but I am getting this error:
Cannot deserialize the current JSON array (e.g. [1,2,3]) into type
'test.Model.RetrieveMultipleResponse' because the type requires a JSON
object (e.g. {"name":"value"}) to deserialize correctly. To fix this
error either change the JSON to a JSON object (e.g. {"name":"value"})
or change the deserialized type to an array or a type that implements
a collection interface (e.g. ICollection, IList) like List that can
be deserialized from a JSON array. JsonArrayAttribute can also be
added to the type to force it to deserialize from a JSON array. Path
'', line 1, position 1.

Your json string is wrapped within square brackets ([]), hence it is interpreted as array instead of single RetrieveMultipleResponse object. Therefore, you need to deserialize it to type collection of RetrieveMultipleResponse, for example :
var objResponse1 =
JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<RetrieveMultipleResponse>>(JsonStr);

If one wants to support Generics (in an extension method) this is the pattern...
public static List<T> Deserialize<T>(this string SerializedJSONString)
{
var stuff = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<T>>(SerializedJSONString);
return stuff;
}
It is used like this:
var rc = new MyHttpClient(URL);
//This response is the JSON Array (see posts above)
var response = rc.SendRequest();
var data = response.Deserialize<MyClassType>();
MyClassType looks like this (must match name value pairs of JSON array)
[JsonObject(MemberSerialization = MemberSerialization.OptIn)]
public class MyClassType
{
[JsonProperty(PropertyName = "Id")]
public string Id { get; set; }
[JsonProperty(PropertyName = "Name")]
public string Name { get; set; }
[JsonProperty(PropertyName = "Description")]
public string Description { get; set; }
[JsonProperty(PropertyName = "Manager")]
public string Manager { get; set; }
[JsonProperty(PropertyName = "LastUpdate")]
public DateTime LastUpdate { get; set; }
}
Use NUGET to download Newtonsoft.Json add a reference where needed...
using Newtonsoft.Json;

Can't add a comment to the solution but that didn't work for me. The solution that worked for me was to use:
var des = (MyClass)Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(response, typeof(MyClass));
return des.data.Count.ToString();
Deserializing JSON array into strongly typed .NET object

Use this, FrontData is JSON string:
var objResponse1 = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<DataTransfer>>(FrontData);
and extract list:
var a = objResponse1[0];
var b = a.CustomerData;

To extract the first element (Key) try this method and it will be the same for the others :
using (var httpClient = new HttpClient())
{
using (var response = await httpClient.GetAsync("Your URL"))
{
var apiResponse = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
var list = JObject.Parse(apiResponse)["Attributes"].Select(el => new { Key= (string)el["Key"] }).ToList();
var Keys= list.Select(p => p.Key).ToList();
}
}

var objResponse1 =
JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<RetrieveMultipleResponse>>(JsonStr);
worked!

How I get data from json with linq?

[
{
"id": "133",
"label": "S/M",
"price": "0",
"oldPrice": "0",
"products": [
"318",
"321",
"324",
"327"
]
},
{
"id": "132",
"label": "L/XL",
"price": "0",
"oldPrice": "0",
"products": [
"319",
"322",
"325",
"328"
]
},
{
"id": "131",
"label": "XXL/XXXL",
"price": "0",
"oldPrice": "0",
"products": [
"320",
"323",
"326",
"329"
]
}
]
I want to get 'label' where array "products" contains "321". How i can make this? I used library json.net
i make linq expression
JArray ja = JArray("this json");
JValue id = JValue.Parse("328");
ja.Select(x => x["label"]).Where(x => x["products"].Contains(id));
But i get "Cannot access child value on Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JValue."

So you should define the class first:
class MyObj {
public string id { get; set; }
public string[] products { get; set; }
public string label { get; set; }
}
And deserialize that instead of object:
var deserialized = serializer.Deserialize<MyObj>(str);
var result = deserialized.Where(r => r.products.Contains("321")).ToList();

For this you can use any JSON library. e.g. JSON.NET
This LINQ to JSON sample

You need to use a library like JSON.NET.
In this case you can write something like this
string json = <your json string>;
var deserializedProduct = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Product>>(json).Where(p => p.products.Contains("321")).ToList();
where Product is
public class Product
{
public string id { get; set; }
public string[] products { get; set; }
public string label { get; set; }
}