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Convert JSON string to object C#

I have JSON string results as follows.
In this response Sometimes sizeKey and sizeName properties are returned as a string. But sometimes both properties are returns inside an array as follows
I am using following code to convert it to object
var assets = jObject["assets"].Children().ToList();
foreach (var item in assets)
{
decorationAssets.Add(item.ToObject<AEDecorationAssets>());
}
And my AEDecorationAssets class is as follows.
public class AEDecorationAssets
{
public string Id { get; set; }
public string Url { get; set; }
public string[] Colors { get; set; }
public string FontKey { get; set; }
public string SizeKey { get; set; }
public string ViewKey { get; set; }
public string FontName { get; set; }
public int Rotation { get; set; }
public string SizeName { get; set; }
public string TextValue { get; set; }
public string EntityType { get; set; }
public string LocationCode { get; set; }
public string LocationName { get; set; }
public string TextEffectKey { get; set; }
public string TextEffectName { get; set; }
public string DecorationMethod { get; set; }
public string NumDecorationColors { get; set; }
}
At the time when "sizeKey" is an array, the above code gives an error. How can I resolve this issue? Is there any JSON property we can use to resolve it?

One way you can do it is by making your SizeKey type an object (i.e. public object SizeKey { get; set; }), then you can switch/case on item.ToObject<AEDecorationAssets>().SizeKey.GetType() to figure out how to handle it (i.e. if String do this, if JArray do that), etc.

If a JSON type is sometime an array, and sometimes a string, you can't really map it simply to a .NET type, as there is none that supports this behavior.
So first you need a datatype that can store this, like and string[] or List<string>.
It could be that JsonConvert will solve this automatically, but otherwise you'll need to write a custom ContractResolver or JsonConverter. Here you can detect if the source property is a string or array. If it's an array, you can use the default deserialization. If it is a string, you need to convert it to an array with a single value.

Simply get json result for which you want to create c# object and then you can valid json response from https://jsonlint.com/ and then you can create c# object of any type json response which you want through http://json2csharp.com. And after get c# object of your json response you only need to deserialization of your json response to c# object which you have created. which will return you expected result.

Deserialize multiple JSON records in C# [duplicate]

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I have the following string of Json records:
{
"records":[
{
"PK":"1_1_8",
"ID":"8",
"DeviceID":"1",
"RootID":"1",
"CustName":"test1",
"CustSurname":"test2",
"Address":"Nisou 1",
"City":"",
"ZipCode":"",
"PhoneNumber":"45646",
"HomePhoneNumber":"",
"Email":"",
"Notes":"",
"Owner":"1",
"LanguageID":"1",
"LanguagePK":"",
"DeletedFlag":"false",
"created":"2017-10-25 10:15:00",
"modified":"2017-10-25 09:35:43"
},
{
"PK":"1_1_33",
"ID":"33",
"DeviceID":"1",
"RootID":"1",
"CustName":"",
"CustSurname":"",
"Address":"",
"City":"",
"ZipCode":"",
"PhoneNumber":"",
"HomePhoneNumber":"",
"Email":"",
"Notes":"",
"Owner":null,
"LanguageID":"0",
"LanguagePK":"",
"DeletedFlag":"true",
"created":"2017-10-25 10:13:54",
"modified":"2017-10-25 10:13:54"
},
{
"PK":"1_1_16",
"ID":"16",
"DeviceID":"1",
"RootID":"1",
"CustName":"Theodosis",
"CustSurname":"",
"Address":"Dali",
"City":"Nicosia",
"ZipCode":"2540",
"PhoneNumber":"45645",
"HomePhoneNumber":"99123456",
"Email":"theodosis#gmail.com",
"Notes":"",
"Owner":"",
"LanguageID":"1",
"LanguagePK":"",
"DeletedFlag":"false",
"created":"2017-10-25 09:36:22",
"modified":"2017-10-25 09:36:22"
}
]
}
I am using Xamarin PCL in C# trying to parse this string into a list of objects.
I have a Customer class:
public class Customer
{
[PrimaryKey]
public string PK { get; set; }
public int DeviceID { get; set; }
public int ID { get; set; }
public string RootID{ get; set; }
public string CustName { get; set; }
public string CustSurname { get; set; }
public string Address { get; set; }
public string City { get; set; }
public string ZipCode { get; set; }
public string PhoneNumber { get; set; }
public string HomePhoneNumber { get; set; }
public string Email { get; set; }
public string Notes { get; set; }
public bool Owner { get; set; }
public int LanguageID { get; set; }
public string LanguagePK { get; set; }
public bool DeletedFlag { get; set; }
public DateTime created { get; set; }
public DateTime modified { get; set; }
}
I also tried out having a container class with a list of Customer objects.
public class DataContainer
{
public List<Customer> customers { get; set; }
}
I have seen quite a few of examples online on how to parse this into a list or any workable type but nothing seems to be working for me.
I have tried the following (JsonResults holds the string of Json records):
var observation = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<DataContainer>(JsonResults);
From other posts, I am not able to access JavaScriptSerializer class from my code, perhaps because of the Xamarin PCL Framework I am using.
Any ideas would be very welcome, as I said I do not mind the format I parse the string into, as long as it's workable.
Thank you.

You would have to make the following changes to your code to make this work.
First and most importantly, you don't have a property customers, you have records, so either rename it
public class DataContainer {
public List<Customer> records { get; set; }
}
or add a JsonProperty attribute
[JsonProperty(PropertyName = "records")]
Secondly, your Owner is a bool in C# and a nullable int (int?) in Json. So either change it in your C# class
public int? Owner { get; set; }
or write a converter to do that (e.g. like here)
[JsonConverter(typeof(NullableIntToBooleanConverter))]
public bool Owner { get; set; }
Here is a working .NetFiddle

The JSON string you provided is a JSON object, which contains a single property called records. records property is a List<Customer>. You can not deserialize the given string directly into DataContainer class that you provided because the property names do not match.
In the Class that your provided it is called customers
public class DataContainer {
public List<Customer> customers { get; set; } //records
}
Or please have a look at the attribute for a bit of advanced mapping
[JsonProperty]
JSON you provided is of the form:
{"records":[{Customer},{Customer},{Customer}]}
But Owner property is "1", null or "". Therefore I would suggest redefining Owner as int? (nullable)

Your string shows one object with a property named records that contains a list of other objects. Your code is trying to deserialize this into an object that doesn't have such a property.
Furthermore, the string contains objects with a property Owner that may be missing or have a numeric value. It's definitely not a bool.
You'll have to change Owner to :
public int? Owner { get; set; }
To deserialize the string, you need an object with a records property:
public class DataContainer
{
public Customer[] records { get; set; }
}
var data=JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<DataContainer>(json);
Debug.Assert(data.records.Length == 3);

How to Deserialize the json object in windows phone 8.1?

I want to bind json obect to my properties When I deserialize the json object and bind into the properties ,properties shows null values,please some one help me to resolve this.
this is my code
string s = "{\"response\":{\"status\":\"fail\",\"content\":{\"user_id\":\"56\",\"first\":\"kiran\",\"last\":\"kumar\",\"username\":\"kirankumar\"},\"msg\":\"shggh\"}}";
var jsonObj = JObject.Parse(s);
response myDeserializedObj = (response)Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(jsonObj.ToString(), typeof(response));
this is properties
public class response
{
public string status { get; set; }
public content content { get; set; }
}
public class content
{
public string user_id { get; set; }
public string first { get; set; }
public string last { get; set; }
public string username { set; get; }
}
Thanks,
karthik

I copied you code and tested it in my machine and I could solve your problem
here is the solution
add the following class
public class ResponseWrapper
{
public response response { get; set; }
}
replace your code with the following
string s = "{\"response\":{\"status\":\"fail\",\"content\":{\"user_id\":\"56\",\"first\":\"kiran\",\"last\":\"kumar\",\"username\":\"kirankumar\"},\"msg\":\"shggh\"}}";
response my = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<ResponseWrapper>(s).response;
I am sure this will work.
UPDATE
Another solution (Which is tested also) and better than the first one
because it is more clean, and in this way you have not to create new wrapper class.
the solution is replace your string with the following string.
and all of your previous code will stay the same
here is the correct JSON string
string s = "{\"status\":\"fail\",\"content\":{\"user_id\":\"56\",\"first\":\"kiran\",\"last\":\"kumar\",\"username\":\"kirankumar\"},\"msg\":\"shggh\"}";
UPDATE 2
in the comments below of this answer you asked a completely a new question.
here is your new question (I copied this from your comments)
public class responseWraper
{
public response response { get; set; }
}
public class response
{
public string status { get; set; }
public content content { get; set; }
}
public class content
{
public Employees Employees { get; set; }
}
public class Employees
{
public string Employee_id { get; set; }
public string Employee_name { get; set; }
public string status { get; set; }
}
and here is how you are trying to deserialize this (also this copied from your comments)
string s = "{\"response\":{\"status\":\"success\",\"content\":{\"Employees\":[{\"Employee_i‌​d\":\"1\",\"Employee_name\":\"Sravan\",\"status\":\"1\"},}]}}}";
response my = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<responseWraper>(s).response;
ANSWER
your code has two problem
the first is you are using the Employees as array in the JSON string, but the type of the Employees property is not an array
the second problem that the JSON string itself is not valid. it has an errors
there is 4 { character but you have 5 } character inside it.
so you have to fix those two problem as the following
public class content
{
public List<Employees> Employees { get; set; }
}
and the string is
string s = "{\"response\":{\"status\":\"success\",\"content\":{\"Employees\":[{\"Employee_id\":\"1\",\"Employee_name\":\"Sravan\",\"status\":\"1\"},]}}}";
and if you have any other question , I will be happy to help you :)

Try your JSON with http://json2csharp.com/.
Your current code would deserialize the following JSON:
{
"status":"fail",
"content":{
"user_id":"56",
"first":"kiran",
"last":"kumar",
"username":"kirankumar"
},
"msg":"shggh"
}
You are missing a root class with a single Property "response" with the type "Response"

Giving a property two identifiers for deserializing JSON

I'm deserializing JSON into an object with JavaScriptSerializer in C#.
The object has the following properties:
public string plugin_name { get; set; }
public string slug { get; set; }
public string description { get; set; }
public string logo_full { get; set; }
public string[] categories { get; set; }
public Version[] versions { get; set; }
The thing is that the names (e.g. plugin_name) don't follow the usual naming guidelines (pascal case). Is there any simple way that I can give a property two identifiers? Or is there anything else that could help me achieve what I want. I'm aware that I could do this:
public string PluginName { get; set; }
public string plugin_name { set { PluginName = value; } }
But is there any simpler and cleaner solution to this?
Any help would be appreciated.

Per this documentation, you can add an attribute to assist in this mapping instead of having to create this redirect:
[JsonProperty("plugin_name")]
public string PluginName{get;set;}
But, as pointed out, this is specific to Json.NET. Is it possible for you to use that instead?

Lowercase in xml element names when using MvcContrib's XmlResult

I've got a class like this
public class Reply
{
public string Result { get; set; }
public int Code { get; set; }
public string Description { get; set; }
}
When I use it as a param to XmlResult constructor, I get an output where xml element names first letters are uppercase. But I need them to be plain lowercase. Perhaps there is some sort of attribute which I miss? Unfortunately, I haven't found any documentation on XmlResult.

For serializing you add either:
[XmlElement("loweredname")]
or
[XmlAttribute("loweredname")]
for XML Elements and Attributes respectively. Hopefully this works for what you need.
Update: Your class should be something like:
[XmlRoot("reply")]
public class Reply
{
[XmlElement("result")]
public string Result { get; set; }
[XmlElement("code")]
public int Code { get; set; }
[XmlElement("description")]
public string Description { get; set; }
}