I'm new to Json and trying to understand how I can parse it using Json.Net. I've tried to create objects for my json input, but I'm stuck. I'm not quite sure how to parse the input so I can iterate through it and output the season numbers and episode name.
Anyone who can point me in the right direction?
Json:
{
"data":{
"1921":{
"1":{
"airdate":"1921-03-20",
"name":"Cleaning Up!!?",
"quality":"N/A",
"status":"Wanted"
},
"2":{
"airdate":"1921-03-20",
"name":"Kansas City Girls Are Rolling Their Own Now",
"quality":"N/A",
"status":"Wanted"
},
"3":{
"airdate":"1921-03-20",
"name":"Did You Ever Take a Ride Over Kansas City Street 'in a Fliver'",
"quality":"N/A",
"status":"Wanted"
},
"4":{
"airdate":"1921-03-20",
"name":"Kansas City's Spring Clean-Up",
"quality":"N/A",
"status":"Wanted"
}
},
"1923":{
"1":{
"airdate":"2013-05-16",
"name":"Alice's Wonderland - aka - Alice in Slumberland",
"quality":"Unknown",
"status":"Downloaded"
}
}
},
"message":"",
"result":"success"
}
Code:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
RootObject data = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<RootObject>(System.IO.File.ReadAllText(#"C:\Users\Benjamin\Desktop\json\input.txt"));
foreach (var e in data)
{
// Being able to output Season and Episode name like:
// 1921 - Cleaning Up!!?
}
}
public class RootObject
{
public Dictionary<int, Season> data { get; set; }
public string message { get; set; }
public string result { get; set; }
}
public class Season
{
public Dictionary<string, Episode> number { get; set; }
}
public class Episode
{
public string airdate { get; set; }
public string name { get; set; }
public string quality { get; set; }
public string status { get; set; }
}
With a change to your RootObject:
public class RootObject
{
public Dictionary<int, Dictionary<string, Episode>> data { get; set; }
public string message { get; set; }
public string result { get; set; }
}
You can then do this:
RootObject root = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<RootObject>(data);
foreach (var s in root.data)
{
foreach (var e in s.Value)
{
Console.WriteLine(string.Format("{0} - {1}", s.Key, e.Value.name));
// access whatever properties you want here...
}
}
Note, we have eliminated the Season object because JSON.net won't be able to map to the property number because that's not a property in your original JSON (you can make it work, but it would require some fiddling around with custom serialization).
If you really want a LINQ solution, then something like:
root.data.ToList().ForEach(s =>
{
s.Value.ToList().ForEach(e =>
{
Console.WriteLine(string.Format("{0} - {1}", s.Key, e.Value.name));
});
});
Achieves the same thing, but requires copying your dictionary into a list which might be a problem if your dictionary is very large.
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I have a list of objects in below json format. I would like to deserialize using below code. It is throwing unable to convert to object error. I have tried below three options, but didnt help. jsoninput is a IEnumerable<string>converted into json object using ToJson().
Error:
{"Error converting value \"{\"id\":\"11ef2c75-9a6d-4cef-8163-94daad4f8397\",\"name\":\"bracing\",\"lastName\":\"male\",\"profilePictureUrl\":null,\"smallUrl\":null,\"thumbnailUrl\":null,\"country\":null,\"isInvalid\":false,\"userType\":0,\"profilePrivacy\":1,\"chatPrivacy\":1,\"callPrivacy\":0}\" to type 'Api.Models.UserInfo'. Path '[0]', line 1, position 271."}
var requests1 = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<UsersInfo>(jsoninput);
var requests2 = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<IEnumerable<UserInfo>>(jsoninput);
var requests3 = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<UserInfo>>(jsoninput);
//Below are my classes,
public class UsersInfo
{
public List<UserInfo> UserInfoList { get; set; }
public UsersInfo()
{
UserInfoList = new List<UserInfo>();
}
}
public class UserInfo
{
public string Id { set; get; }
public string Name { set; get; }
public string LastName { set; get; }
public string ProfilePictureUrl { set; get; }
public string SmallUrl { set; get; }
public string ThumbnailUrl { get; set; }
public string Country { set; get; }
public bool IsInvalid { set; get; }
}
Below is my json object,
["{\"id\":\"11ef2c75-9a6d-4cef-8163-94daad4f8397\",\"name\":\"bracing\",\"lastName\":\"male\",\"profilePictureUrl\":null,\"smallUrl\":null,\"thumbnailUrl\":null,\"country\":null,\"isInvalid\":false}","{\"id\":\"318c0885-2720-472c-ba9e-1d1e120bcf65\",\"name\":\"locomotives\",\"lastName\":\"riddles\",\"profilePictureUrl\":null,\"smallUrl\":null,\"thumbnailUrl\":null,\"country\":null,\"isInvalid\":false}"]
Looping through individual items in json input and if i deserialize it like below, it works fine. But i want to deserialize the list fully. Note: jsoninput was a IEnumerable<string> before i convert in json object.
foreach (var re in jsoninput)
{
var request0 = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<UserInfo>(re);
}
Please look at this fiddle: https://dotnetfiddle.net/XpjuL4
This is the code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
//Below are my classes,
public class UsersInfo
{
public List<UserInfo> UserInfoList { get; set; }
public UsersInfo()
{
UserInfoList = new List<UserInfo>();
}
}
public class UserInfo
{
public string Id { set; get; }
public string Name { set; get; }
public string LastName { set; get; }
public string ProfilePictureUrl { set; get; }
public string SmallUrl { set; get; }
public string ThumbnailUrl { get; set; }
public string Country { set; get; }
public bool IsInvalid { set; get; }
}
public class Program
{
public static void Main()
{
Console.WriteLine("Hello World");
Option1();
Option2();
}
public static void Option1(){
string json = #"{""UserInfoList"":[
{""id"":""11ef2c75 - 9a6d - 4cef - 8163 - 94daad4f8397"",""name"":""bracing"",""lastName"":""male"",""profilePictureUrl"":null,""smallUrl"":null,""thumbnailUrl"":null,""country"":null,""isInvalid"":false},
{ ""id"":""318c0885-2720-472c-ba9e-1d1e120bcf65"",""name"":""locomotives"",""lastName"":""riddles"",""profilePictureUrl"":null,""smallUrl"":null,""thumbnailUrl"":null,""country"":null,""isInvalid"":false}
]}";
var obj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<UsersInfo>(json);
obj.UserInfoList.ForEach(e => Console.WriteLine(e.Id));
}
public static void Option2(){
string json = #"[
{""id"":""11ef2c75 - 9a6d - 4cef - 8163 - 94daad4f8397"",""name"":""bracing"",""lastName"":""male"",""profilePictureUrl"":null,""smallUrl"":null,""thumbnailUrl"":null,""country"":null,""isInvalid"":false},
{ ""id"":""318c0885-2720-472c-ba9e-1d1e120bcf65"",""name"":""locomotives"",""lastName"":""riddles"",""profilePictureUrl"":null,""smallUrl"":null,""thumbnailUrl"":null,""country"":null,""isInvalid"":false}
]";
var obj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<UserInfo>>(json);
obj.ForEach(e => Console.WriteLine(e.Id));
}
}
Both work, and are basically very close to what you are doing. You can either serialize it as a list (based on your json, I think that's the closest to your use case, and that's Option 2).
However, put extra attention to the JSON. I had to re-parse your JSON to make it work (https://jsonformatter.org/json-parser is a nice website to do it). For the sake of explaining the example, in C#, # means raw string, and in raw string, quotes are escaped with double quotes "".
I would expect that the business logic generating this JSON is not correct, if the JSON you pasted is the direct result from it.
EDIT
Given the OP's comment:
Thanks Tu.ma for your thoughts. The other method returns
IEnumerable which is nothing but
Dictionary.Where(x => x.Value == null).Select(x =>
x.Key).ToHashSet(). The values in Dictionary are -> Key
is String, Value is UserInfo object serialized. So, in that case i
should deserialize one by one? If not, i should serialize entire list
in one shot? Am i right? – Raj 12 hours ago
The problem is in the way you are generating the list of UsersInfo. The result from Dictionary<string,string>.Where(x => x.Value == null).Select(x =>
x.Key).ToHashSet() is a bunch of strings, not of objects, so you need to serialize them one by one.
If you are worried about the linearity of the approach, you could consider running through it in parallel. Of course, you need to judge if it fits your application.
var userInfoStrings = Dictionary<string,string>.Where(x => x.Value == null).Select(x => x.Key).ToHashSet();
var UserInfoList = userInfoStrings.AsParallel().Select (u => JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<UsersInfo>(u)).ToList();
I have this Json:
{
"UpdatePack":"updatePacks\/1585654836.pack",
"Updates":[
{
"Name":"MsgBoxEx",
"version":"1.5.14.88",
"ChangeLog":"BugFix: Form didn't resize correct.",
"Hash":"5FB23ED83693A6D3147A0485CD13288315F77D3D37AAC0697E70B8F8C9AA0BB8"
},
{
"Name":"Utilities",
"version":"2.5.1.58",
"ChangeLog":"StringManagement updated.",
"Hash":"05E6B3F521225C604662916F50A701E9783E13776DE4FCA27BE4B69705491AC5"
}
]
}
I have created 2 classes to be used to Deserialize it.
class UpdatesList
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Version { get; set; }
public string ChangeLog { get; set; }
public string Hash { get; set; }
}
class JsonObjectHolder
{
public string UpdatePack { get; set; }
//public Dictionary<int, MyData> { get; set; }
public Dictionary<int, UpdatesList> Updates { get; set; }
}
But when I try to access the dictionary, I keep getting Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at " Console.WriteLine(jsonTest.Dict.Count);"
Am I Deserializing it wrong, or do I need to do some thing else to access the result of the dictionary?
I'm new to both C# and Json.
I hope that some one could point me in the right direction on how to handle this.
I'm using Visual Studio 2019 latest update, and .net 4.8.
Regards
/LR
You code doesn't work because 0 and 1 tokens just a properties, not the array items (you don't have square brackets [] around them). You can parse these values to desired structure manually using JObject
var json = JObject.Parse(your_json_string);
var dict = new Dictionary<int, UpdatesList>();
foreach (var item in json.Properties())
{
if (item.Value.Type == JTokenType.Object)
{
var index = int.Parse(item.Name);
var updateList = item.Value.ToObject<UpdatesList>();
dict.Add(index, updateList);
}
}
var holder = new JsonObjectHolder
{
UpdatePack = json["Updates"]?.Value<string>(),
Dict = dict
};
Update: According to OP changes made to JSON it might be deserialized even more simply
var list = json["Updates"]?.ToObject<List<UpdatesList>>();
var holder = new JsonObjectHolder
{
UpdatePack = json["UpdatePack"]?.Value<string>(),
Dict = list.Select((updatesList, index) => new { updatesList, index })
.ToDictionary(x => x.index, x => x.updatesList)
};
The main point here is that Updates is an array of items, not the key-value collection. It can be transformed into Dictionary<int, UpdatesList> using ToDictionary method from System.Linq (or just use List<UpdatesList> as is)
The exception you're getting essentially means the value is being accessed before the object is initialized.
A better, simpler and cleaner way to doing it is using NewtonSoft. (you can easily get it as a Nuget package)
example:
public class Account
{
public string Email { get; set; }
public bool Active { get; set; }
public DateTime CreatedDate { get; set; }
public IList<string> Roles { get; set; }
}
and then usage:
string json = #"{
'Email': 'james#example.com',
'Active': true,
'CreatedDate': '2013-01-20T00:00:00Z',
'Roles': [
'User',
'Admin'
]
}";
Account account = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Account>(json);
Console.WriteLine(account.Email);
Source: https://www.newtonsoft.com/json/help/html/DeserializeObject.htm
I don't see why you need Dictionary<int, UpdatesList> Updates, when you can easily just use List<Update> Updates, since your updates are in a JSON array.
I would model your classes like this:
public class Update
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Version { get; set; }
public string ChangeLog { get; set; }
public string Hash { get; set; }
}
public class RootObject
{
public string UpdatePack { get; set; }
public List<Update> Updates { get; set; }
}
You can then deserialize with:
JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<RootObject>(json);
Try it out on dotnetfiddle.net
Note: To convert JSON to C# classes, you can go to Edit -> Paste Special -> Paste JSON as Classes inside Visual Studio. Make sure you have copied the JSON to your clipboard before using it. You will get classes similar to above.
your data and the class is not compatible. if you change the string like this it would work.
change "Updates" to "UpdatePack" and add "Dict" around the dictionary items.
{
"UpdatePack":"updates\/4D1D7964D5B88E5867324F575B77D2FA.zip",
"Dict":{
"0":{
"Name":"MsgBoxEx",
"Version":"1.0.123.58",
"ChangeLog":"Bugfix:Form didn't resize correct",
"hash":"AA94556C0D2C8C73DD217974D252AF3311A5BF52819B06D179D17672F21049A6"
},
"1":{
"Name":"Utilities",
"Version":"1.5.321.87",
"ChangeLog":"StringManagement updated",
"hash":"2F561B02A49376E3679ACD5975E3790ABDFF09ECBADFA1E1858C7BA26E3FFCEF"
}
}
}
The JSON data is as follows：
{"Sucess":true,
"Code":0,
"Msg":"Sucess",
"Data":{
"UserDayRanking":
{
"UserID":11452112,
"UserCharm":0,
"UserName":"gay",
"UserGender":1,
"UserLevel":36,
"UserPhoto":"http://res.xxx.com/2020/3/16/63719926625601201487545U11452112.jpeg",
"Ranking":0,
"IsNobility":0,
"NobilityType":0,
"NobilityLevel":0,
"UserShowStyle":null,
"LiveLevelUrl":null,
"IsStealth":false},
"DayRankingList":[
{
"UserID":3974854,
"UserCharm":114858,
"UserName":"jack",
"UserGender":1,
"UserLevel":91,
"UserPhoto":"http://res.xxx.com/2020/2/15/63717400601924412312384U3974854.jpeg",
"Ranking":2,
"IsNobility":1,
"NobilityType":1,
"NobilityLevel":3,
"UserShowStyle":
{
"NameColor":100102,
"BorderColor":100403,
"LiangMedal":0,
"DztCountDown":0,
"Mounts":100204,
"LiveLevelCode":0,
"LiveRights":null
},
"LiveLevelUrl":null,
"IsStealth":false
},
{"UserID":6231512,
"UserCharm":22644,
"UserName":"red.girl",
"UserGender":1,
"UserLevel":57,
"UserPhoto":"http://res.xxx.com/2019/11/20/63709843050801519858823U6231512.jpeg",
"Ranking":3,
"IsNobility":0,
"NobilityType":0,
"NobilityLevel":0,
"UserShowStyle":{
"NameColor":0,
"BorderColor":0,
"LiangMedal":0,
"DztCountDown":0,
"Mounts":0,
"LiveLevelCode":0,
"LiveRights":null
},
"LiveLevelUrl":null,
"IsStealth":false}
],
"LiveCharmSwitch":1,
"IsSelf":false
}
}
I want to use c # extraction
"UserID": 3974854,
"UserCharm": 114858,
"UserName": "jack",
"UserID":6231512,
"UserCharm":22644,
"UserName":"red.girl",
That is to extract UserID, UserCharm, UserName，This json has many layers,
What I want after the extraction is，id is sorted in order
id = 1, UserID = 3974854, UserCharm = 114858, UserName = jack
id = 2, UserID = 6231512, UserCharm = 22644, UserName = red.girl
I use the following code, but only extract the first one
string json = #"{"Sucess":true,"Code":0,"Msg":"Sucess","Data":{"UserDayRanking":{"UserID":11452112,"UserCharm":0,"UserName":"gay","UserGender":1,"UserLevel":36,"UserPhoto":"http://res.xxx.com/2020/3/16/63719926625601201487545U11452112.jpeg","Ranking":0,"IsNobility":0,"NobilityType":0,"NobilityLevel":0,"UserShowStyle":null,"LiveLevelUrl":null,"IsStealth":false},"DayRankingList":[{"UserID":3974854,"UserCharm":114858,"UserName":"jack","UserGender":1,"UserLevel":91,"UserPhoto":"http://res.xxx.com/2020/2/15/63717400601924412312384U3974854.jpeg","Ranking":2,"IsNobility":1,"NobilityType":1,"NobilityLevel":3,"UserShowStyle":{"NameColor":100102,"BorderColor":100403,"LiangMedal":0,"DztCountDown":0,"Mounts":100204,"LiveLevelCode":0,"LiveRights":null},"LiveLevelUrl":null,"IsStealth":false},{"UserID":6231512,"UserCharm":22644,"UserName":"red.girl","UserGender":1,"UserLevel":57,"UserPhoto":"http://res.xxx.com/2019/11/20/63709843050801519858823U6231512.jpeg","Ranking":3,"IsNobility":0,"NobilityType":0,"NobilityLevel":0,"UserShowStyle":{"NameColor":0,"BorderColor":0,"LiangMedal":0,"DztCountDown":0,"Mounts":0,"LiveLevelCode":0,"LiveRights":null},"LiveLevelUrl":null,"IsStealth":false}],"LiveCharmSwitch":1,"IsSelf":false}}";
List<Info> jobInfoList = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Info>>(z);
foreach (Info jobInfo in jobInfoList)
{
//Console.WriteLine("UserName:" + jobInfo.UserName);
}
public class Info
{
public string UserCharm { get; set; }
public string UserName { get; set; }
public data DayRankingList { get; set; }
}
public class data
{
public int UserID { get; set; }
public string UserCharm { get; set; }
public string UserName { get; set; }
public string UserGender { get; set; }
public string UserLevel { get; set; }
}
The above code only shows username = jack，Never show username = red.girl
As it looks to me then you want some details from your JSON has the which is in DayRankingList. As you only want some data then we can use a tool like http://json2csharp.com/ to create our classes and then remove what we don't need. Then we end up with the following classes.
public class DayRankingList
{
public int UserID { get; set; }
public int UserCharm { get; set; }
public string UserName { get; set; }
}
public class Data
{
public List<DayRankingList> DayRankingList { get; set; }
}
public class RootObject
{
public Data Data { get; set; }
}
Which you can deserialise like this
string json = .....
var root = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<RootObject>(json);
Then if you wish, you can extract the inner data into a new List<> and then just work on that.
List<DayRankingList> rankingLists = root.Data.DayRankingList;
//Do something with this, such as output it
foreach(DayRankingList drl in rankingLists)
{
Console.WriteLine(String.Format("UserId {0} UserCharm {1} UserName {2}",drl.UserId, drl.UserCharm, drl.UserName));
}
You can use Json.Linq to parse your JSON into JObject and enumerate DayRankingList items (since it's an array). Then convert every item into data class and order the result sequence by UserID
var jObject = JObject.Parse(json);
var rankingList = (jObject["Data"] as JObject)?.Property("DayRankingList");
var list = rankingList.Value
.Select(rank => rank.ToObject<data>())
.OrderBy(item => item?.UserID);
foreach (var user in list)
Console.WriteLine($"{user.UserID} {user.UserName}");
Another way is copy your JSON, go to Edit->Paste Special->Paste JSON as classes menu in Visual Studio and generate a proper class hierarchy (I've got 5 classes, they are quite long to post here), then use them during deserialization
The most type-safe way is to define the class structure that you want, like jason.kaisersmith suggested.
To have the final format you need, though, you might want to do an extra Linq Order and Select, to include the id:
var finalList = rankingLists.OrderBy(rl => rl.UserId).Select((value, index) => new
{
id = index,
value.UserId,
value.UserCharm,
value.UserName
});
foreach (var drl in finalList)
{
Console.WriteLine($"Id = {drl.id}, UserId = {drl.UserId}, UserCharm = {drl.UserCharm}, UserName = {drl.UserName}");
}
I'm working on a Xamarin App, and I use Newtonsoft for Json.
But I'm having trouble with processing some data that I get back.
{
"ok": true,
"payment-methods": [
{
"id": "39sahf92ka9s02",
"type": "ideal",
"options": {
"issuers": {
99: "Test Issuer"
}
}
}
],
}
I don't know how to get to the Test Issuer, because the Key value could be any integer.
A Dictionary makes a lot of sense to use, but then I get the following exception: "System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. json"
I have the following as Model:
[JsonObject(MemberSerialization.OptIn)]
public class PaymentOptions
{
[JsonProperty("ok")]
public Boolean OK { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("payment-methods")]
public List<PaymentMethods> PaymentMethods { get; set; }
}
public class PaymentMethods
{
[JsonProperty("id")]
public string Id { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("type")]
public string Type { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("options")]
public Options Options { get; set; }
}
public class Options
{
[JsonProperty("issuers")]
public IDictionary<int, string> Issuers { get; set; }
}
I deserialize the Json through the following:
var deserializedGetPaymentOptions = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Models.PaymentMethods>(await responseGetPaymentOptions.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
And after that I try to read it by using it in a foreach loop:
foreach (KeyValuePair<int, string> issuerFromDict in deserializedGetPaymentOptions.Options.Issuers)
Have you tried with 99 as string in the json representation ?
...
"issuers": {
"99": "Test Issuer"
}
...
You should let newtonsoft deals with the conversion to int.
I fixed it by doing the following:
var deserializedGetPaymentOptions = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Models.PaymentOptions>(await responseGetPaymentOptions.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
foreach (var desPayOp in deserializedGetPaymentOptions.PaymentMethods) {
Debug.WriteLine("start foreach");
foreach (KeyValuePair<int, string> issuerFromDict in desPayOp.Options.Issuers)
{
Debug.WriteLine(issuerFromDict.Key.ToString() + " : " + issuerFromDict.Value);
}
}
I now deserialize it from PaymentOptions instead of PaymentMethods, then loop through the List and after that through the dictionary.
I'm having a little trouble deserializing a JSON object to a class (using JSON.NET), and hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Below is a snippet of code I'm trying, and been testing at dotnetfiddle
Here's a sample of the JSON:
{
"`LCA0001": {
"23225007190002": "1",
"23249206670003": "1",
"01365100070018": "5"
},
"`LCA0003": {
"23331406670018": "1",
"24942506670004": "1"
},
"`LCA0005": {
"01365100070018": "19"
}
}
I'm trying to use this code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
public class Program
{
public static void Main()
{
string json = "{\"`LCA0001\": {\"23225007190002\": \"1\",\"23249206670003\": \"1\",\"01365100070018\": \"5\"},\"`LCA0003\": {\"23331406670018\": \"1\",\"24942506670004\": \"1\"},\"`LCA0005\": {\"01365100070018\": \"19\"}}";
Console.WriteLine(json);
Console.WriteLine();
//This works
Console.Write("Deserialize without class");
var root = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, Dictionary<string, int>>>(json);
foreach (var locationKvp in root)
{
foreach (var skuKvp in locationKvp.Value)
{
Console.WriteLine("location: " + locationKvp.Key + ", sku: " + skuKvp.Key + ", qty: " + skuKvp.Value);
}
}
//Why doesn't this work?
Console.Write("\nDeserialize with class");
var root2 = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<InventoryLocations>(json);
foreach (var locationKvp in root2.InventoryLocation)
{
foreach (var skuKvp in locationKvp.Value)
{
Console.WriteLine("location: " + locationKvp.Key + ", sku: " + skuKvp.Key + ", qty: " + skuKvp.Value);
}
}
}
}
class InventoryLocations
{
public Dictionary<Location, Dictionary<Sku, Qty>> InventoryLocation { get; set; }
}
public class Location
{
public string location { get; set; }
}
public class Sku
{
public string sku { get; set; }
}
public class Qty
{
public int qty { get; set; }
}
Is there a reason why deserializing into a Class doesn't work? Am I just defining the classes incorrectly?
I see two problems here: one is using classes as the dictionary keys - the JSON has simple strings there (and cannot have anything else really), so that won't work.
The second problem is that deserialization of JSON to classes works by matching keys to properties - so it converts something like
{
"prop1": "value1",
"prop2": "value2"
}
to an instance of:
public class MyClass {
public string prop1 { get; set; }
public string prop2 { get; set; }
}
In your case this cannot work because in your JSON all keys are not valid property names. You have to stick with the deserialization to a dictionary
One of the ways to generate the classes from JSON is using Visual Studio.
Navigate to Edit -> Paste Special -> Paste JSON As Classes. For posted JSON in question, following classes are generated.
public class Rootobject
{
public LCA0001 LCA0001 { get; set; }
public LCA0003 LCA0003 { get; set; }
public LCA0005 LCA0005 { get; set; }
}
public class LCA0001
{
public string _23225007190002 { get; set; }
public string _23249206670003 { get; set; }
public string _01365100070018 { get; set; }
}
public class LCA0003
{
public string _23331406670018 { get; set; }
public string _24942506670004 { get; set; }
}
public class LCA0005
{
public string _01365100070018 { get; set; }
}
In addition to MiMo's answer, you can use a ContractResolver to serialize/deserialize Dictionaries within classes.
Here's a working example of your code in dotnetfiddle.
Note the serialized Json with the contract resolver is different than the original json. It must be serialized using this contract resolver in order to deserialize with it as well.
I pulled the contract resolver from this StackOverflow question, if you need any more clarification.