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I have some JSON Data which looks like this:
{
"response":{
"_token":"StringValue",
"code":"OK",
"user":{
"userid":"2630944",
"firstname":"John",
"lastname":"Doe",
"reference":"999999999",
"guid":"StringValue",
"domainid":"99999",
"username":"jdoe",
"email":"[email protected]",
"passwordquestion":"",
"flags":"0",
"lastlogindate":"2013-02-05T17:54:06.31Z",
"creationdate":"2011-04-15T14:40:07.22Z",
"version":"3753",
"data":{
"aliasname":{
"$value":"John Doe"
},
"smsaddress":{
"$value":"[email protected]"
},
"blti":{
"hideemail":"false",
"hidefullname":"false"
},
"notify":{
"grades":{
"$value":"0"
},
"messages":{
"$value":"1"
}
},
"beta_component_courseplanexpress_1":{
"$value":"true"
}
}
}
}
I am using C# with JSON.NET to parse through the data. I've been able to sucessfully get data using this algorithm:
User MyUser = new User();
JToken data = JObject.Parse(json);
MyUser.FirstName = (string) data.SelectToken("response.user.firstname");
//The same for all the other properties.
The problem is with the data field. This field is based on user preferences mostly and data is only inserted as it is used. The fields are all custom and developers can put in as many as they want without restrictions. Essentially, it's all free form data. Also as you notice they can be nested really far with data.
I've tried to run:
MyUser.Data = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<JToken>>((string) data.SelectToken("response.user.data");
which doesn't work.
How would you go about converting it to be used in a C# object?
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JsonParsingException is used when an incorrect JSON is being parsed.
Certain characters need to be "escaped" when used as part of JSON, like an ampersand (&). You can manually escape these characters, buta better route is to use the ConvertTo-Json cmdlet. That will output an escaped string of any passed string that can be used as part of a JSON file.
Example - Parsing JSONUse the JavaScript function JSON.parse() to convert text into a JavaScript object: const obj = JSON.parse('{"name":"John", "age":30, "city":"New York"}'); Make sure the text is in JSON format, or else you will get a syntax error.
JSONPath is an expression language to parse JSON data. It's very similar to the XPath expression language to parse XML data. The idea is to parse the JSON data and get the value you want.
You can access it via the JToken / JArray / JObject methods. For example, this will list all of the keys under the data:
public class StackOverflow_14714085
{
const string JSON = @"{
""response"": {
""_token"": ""StringValue"",
""code"": ""OK"",
""user"": {
""userid"": ""2630944"",
""firstname"": ""John"",
""lastname"": ""Doe"",
""reference"": ""999999999"",
""guid"": ""StringValue"",
""domainid"": ""99999"",
""username"": ""jdoe"",
""email"": ""[email protected]"",
""passwordquestion"": """",
""flags"": ""0"",
""lastlogindate"": ""2013-02-05T17:54:06.31Z"",
""creationdate"": ""2011-04-15T14:40:07.22Z"",
""version"": ""3753"",
""data"": {
""aliasname"": {
""$value"": ""John Doe""
},
""smsaddress"": {
""$value"": ""[email protected]""
},
""blti"": {
""hideemail"": ""false"",
""hidefullname"": ""false""
},
""notify"": {
""grades"": {
""$value"": ""0""
},
""messages"": {
""$value"": ""1""
}
},
""beta_component_courseplanexpress_1"": {
""$value"": ""true""
}
}
}
}
}";
public static void Test()
{
var jo = JObject.Parse(JSON);
var data = (JObject)jo["response"]["user"]["data"];
foreach (var item in data)
{
Console.WriteLine("{0}: {1}", item.Key, item.Value);
}
}
}
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