Deserialize JSON to dictionary using LINQ to JSON

Question

I have some JSON like this (serializes from a dictionary):

{
  "Context":
  {
    "Test": "Test"
  }
}

And would like to use JSON.NET's JSON to LINQ to deserialize it into a dictionary.

I've tried something different things:

var obj = JObject.Parse(json);
obj.Value<Dictionary<string, string>>("Context");

But this throws an exception like this:

System.InvalidCastException
Cannot cast Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject to Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JToken

I've have also tried:

var obj = JObject.Parse(json);
var context = obj.Values("Context");

But then I can't figure out how to process the elements into a dictionary.

Answer 1

This should work for you:

string json = "{\"Context\":{\"Test\": \"Test\"}}";
var obj = JObject.Parse(json);
var dict = obj["Context"].ToObject<Dictionary<string,string>>();