Deserialize response from firebase

Question

I am using c# interacting with Firebase via the provided REST api.

When I send a GET request to a node, I get the children as expected.

{
    "49d360b0-b3a8-4240-bd69-1f91b07365fd" : {
        "id" : "49d360b0-b3a8-4240-bd69-1f91b07365fd",
        "name" : "Foo",
        "value" : "Love me some foo"
    },
    "8b87b4df-9c04-480b-bb53-43e22059ccfa" : {
        "id" : "8b87b4df-9c04-480b-bb53-43e22059ccfa",
        "name" : "Bar",
        "value" : "Yay, bar"
    },
    "966fe014-08c3-4f64-93a3-7bd8ed396177" : {
        "id" : "966fe014-08c3-4f64-93a3-7bd8ed396177",
        "name" : "Name",
        "value" : "Text"
    }
}

There can be any number of children. I won't know how many until after I get the response. I am trying to get this deserialized into a List, though any kind of IEnumerable should be fine, since that can be converted to a list easily. My Entry class looks like this:

public class Entry
{
    public string id { get; set; }

    public string name { get; set; }

    public string value { get; set; }
}

How do I do the deserialization? I have been using Newtonsoft for most of my JSON handling, will I need to use a different library?

UPDATE: the names of the objects in the JSON are also unknown before making the call, so solutions involving getting values by index won't be super helpful

Answer 1

Here you go (a bit ugly):

public class Item
{
    public Guid Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Value { get; set; }
}

and deserializing code:

dynamic data = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<dynamic>(jsonString);
var list = new List<Item>();
foreach (var itemDynamic in data)
{
    list.Add(JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Item>(((JProperty)itemDynamic).Value.ToString()));
}

I skip that Guid Id's in original json - do you need them? I will update my answer.
EDIT:
A bit shorter Linq version:

dynamic data = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<dynamic>(jsonString);
var shorter = ((IDictionary<string, JToken>)data).Select(k => 
    JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Item>(k.Value.ToString())).ToList();

Answer 2

You could also deseriealize the result to a Dictionary like this:

Dictionary<string, Entry> entryDict = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, Entry>>(jsonString);

and then if you want a list of Entries:

List<Entry> entries = entryDict.Select(x => x.Value).ToList();