I have been building an application where JSON will be provided from a user API. It should read the data from the JSON using JSONPath and persist the selected portions. I am trying to do this using Json.Net (Newtonsoft). The following JSON is a sample:
{
// other properties here and different structure here
"Data": [
{
"Code": "625087",
"Name": "Customer Name",
"Email": "test#hfgidfgd.com"
},
{
"Code": "625087",
"Name": "Customer Name",
"Email": "test#hfgidfgd.com"
},
{
"Code": "625087",
"Name": "Customer Name",
"Email": "test#hfgidfgd.com"
}
],
// other properties here and different structure here
}
I would like to extract the array presented by the Data property content using JSONPath and convert it to List<Dictionary<string, object>> to manipulate in my application.
In tools like jsonpath.com the following JSONPath query works fine but with Newtonsoft it does not:
// get that json
string content = GetJson();
var jo = JObject.Parse(content);
var jsonPath = "$..Data.*";
var jsonPathResult = jo.SelectTokens(jsonPath, true /* to get error when it is not found */ );
Instead I got the exception:
Property '*' not valid on JArray.
If I do the JSONPath like this:
var jsonPath = "$..Data"; // same for just: "Data"
var jsonPathResult = jo.SelectTokens(jsonPath);
I have to loop on the result with two nested foreach, what I think it is not an elegant solution:
var result = new List<Dictionary<string, object>>();
foreach (var jsonResult in jsonPathResult)
{
foreach (var item in jsonResult)
{
var fields = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, object>>(item.ToString());
// some adjusts on the fields dictionary will be applied here...
result.Add(fields);
}
}
Is there any way to get the result to take a single loop the only the content of Data property?
As shown in JSONPath - XPath for JSON, the syntax for an array element wildcard is [*]. Thus your code should look like:
var jsonPath = "$..Data[*]";
var result = jo.SelectTokens(jsonPath, true /* to get error when it is not found */ )
.Select(o => o.ToObject<Dictionary<string, object>>())
.ToList();
Here I am using JToken.ToObject<T>() to deserialize each array element directly to a Dictionary<string, object>> without re-serializing to a string.
Sample working .Net fiddle.
Related
I have a JSON body which looks like this(an array of objects):
[
{
"registered": "2016-02-03T07:55:29",
"color": "red",
},
{
"registered": "2016-02-03T17:04:03",
"color": "blue",
}
]
This body is contained in a variable(requestBody) I create based on a HTTP Request, it's called req:
string requestBody = await new StreamReader(req.Body).ReadToEndAsync();
What I want to do is add a unique identifier to each one of the objects in my JSON array. How could I go about achieving this?
Currently I am deserializing the JSON, adding some string(x) to it and then serializing it again:
dynamic d = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(requestBody);
d.uniqueId = "x";
string newBody = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(d);
I was to add a uniqueId to each one of the objects in my JSON array of objects. How could I achieve this?
You can use JArray from LINQ to JSON API to parse, iterate children of JObject type and modify them:
var json = ...; // your json string
var jArray = JArray.Parse(json);
foreach (var jObject in jArray.Children<JObject>())
{
jObject.Add("id", new JValue("x"));
}
var modified = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(jArray);
I can´t find a value in a json string using json.net
I´ve tried jsonstr[0].track_numbers[0].track_number
This is my json file.
{
"0": {
"increment_id": "112",
"track_numbers": [
{
"track_number": "2223",
"title": "tit",
"carrier_code": "custom"
}
]
},
"live_shipping_status": "Delivered"
}
I want to find the Track_nummber.
dynamic jsonstr = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json));
var track = jsonstr[0].track_numbers[0].track_number
(donsent work)
The 0 of your json is a string key, not an index position:
dynamic obj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json);
var trackNumber = obj["0"].track_numbers[0].track_number;
Note the difference in getting the first entry of track_numbers, which is an array.
I have a requirement to read the json in which keys are vary and store into dictionary in C#.net. I am using Newtonsoft json. I am deserializing like below.
var inputData = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<dynamic>(myObj)
If the keys are fixed I can do like below.
var val = inputData.Account;
But here keys are dynamic. Below is my json data.
{
"data": {
"Account": "150.80",
"Name": "XYZ",
"Description": "Some Value"
}
}
Here name value pairs may change. i.e., It may have like below also.
{
"data": {
"Cost": "154.80",
"Type": "S1234",
"Period": "Some Value"
}
}
How to access dynamic keys and store into a dictionary.
EDIT: This answer was for the previous posted question, not the newly revised question... I'm leaving it in, since it probably has some useful details.
I'd recommend using Json.NET to do this.
If the fact that the json data always has the field named data, then you can write fairly predictable code to output the contents of data into a dictionary.
Off the top of my head, I'd probably go for an anonymous type-based deserialization, kind of like this:
var json = #"{
""data"": {
""Account"": ""150.80"",
""Name"": ""XYZ"",
""Description"": ""Some Value""
}
}";
var schema = new { data = new Dictionary<string, object>()};
var result = JsonConvert.DeserializeAnonymousType(json, schema);
You'd have to reach into result.data to get that dictionary.
You could also just use JObject to pull out the values from data directly, but probably would need to parse that data into a dictionary, so it'd be sort of a double call going on, like this:
var jobj = JObject.Parse(json);
var data = jobj["data"];
var dict = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, object>>
(data.ToString());
There's probably more ways to do this even more efficiently. Like I said, these are just ideas off the top of my head.
I have a JSON file I'm reading from text and parsing it into JObject using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq. The JSON file looks like this:
{
"EntityTypeDto":[
{
"EntityType":"Grade",
"Language":"ES"
},
{
"EntityType":"ApplicationType",
"Language":"ES"
},
{
"EntityType":"Borough",
"Language":"ES"
}
]
}
Using the Newtonsoft library, are there any methods I can leverage on JObject to replace the Language property of all the objects to another value? If not what would be another way to do this? This project is a console application in C#, VS 2012, thanks.
You don't need Linq here to achieve what you need , Linq is for consult data, not for modify it. So you can just, eg, a foreach to iterate and modify the elements of the array:
JObject json= JObject.Parse(jsonString);
JArray entityTypeDtos= (JArray)json["EntityTypeDto"];
foreach(var e in entityTypeDtos)
{
if(e["Language"] != null)
e["Language"]="EN";
}
I'm guessing by the Linq tag you would like a Linq approach try this
string json = #"{
'EntityTypeDto':[
{
'EntityType':'Grade',
'Language':'ES'
},
{
'EntityType':'ApplicationType',
'Language':'ES'
},
{
'EntityType':'Borough',
'Language':'ES'
}
]
}";
JObject myjobj = JObject.Parse(json);
JArray EntityType = (JArray)myjobj["EntityTypeDto"];
(from eobj in EntityType
where eobj["Language"]="ES"
select eobj).ForEach(x => x["Language"]="New Value");
I have a JSON string from which I want to be able to delete some data.
Below is the JSON response:
{
"ResponseType": "VirtualBill",
"Response": {
"BillHeader": {
"BillId": "7134",
"DocumentId": "MN003_0522060",
"ConversionValue": "1.0000",
"BillType": "Vndr-Actual",
"AccountDescription": "0522060MMMDDYY",
"AccountLastChangeDate": "06/07/2016"
}
},
"Error": null
}
From above JSON response I want to able remove the
"ResponseType": "VirtualBill", part such that it looks like this:
{
"Response": {
"BillHeader": {
"BillId": "7134",
"DocumentId": "MN003_0522060",
"ConversionValue": "1.0000",
"BillType": "Vndr-Actual",
"AccountDescription": "0522060MMMDDYY",
"AccountLastChangeDate": "06/07/2016"
}
},
"Error": null
}
Is there an easy way to do this in C#?
Using Json.Net, you can remove the unwanted property like this:
JObject jo = JObject.Parse(json);
jo.Property("ResponseType").Remove();
json = jo.ToString();
Fiddle: https://dotnetfiddle.net/BgMQAE
If the property you want to remove is nested inside another object, then you just need to navigate to that object using SelectToken and then Remove the unwanted property from there.
For example, let's say that you wanted to remove the ConversionValue property, which is nested inside BillHeader, which is itself nested inside Response. You can do it like this:
JObject jo = JObject.Parse(json);
JObject header = (JObject)jo.SelectToken("Response.BillHeader");
header.Property("ConversionValue").Remove();
json = jo.ToString();
Fiddle: https://dotnetfiddle.net/hTlbrt
Convert it to a JsonObject, remove the key, and convert it back to string.
Sample sample= new Sample();
var properties=sample.GetType().GetProperties().Where(x=>x.Name!="ResponseType");
var response = new Dictionary<string,object>() ;
foreach(var prop in properties)
{
var propname = prop.Name;
response[propname] = prop.GetValue(sample); ;
}
var response= Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(response);