Reading JSON files with C# and JSON.net

Question

Im having some trouble to understand how to use JSON.net to read a json file.

The file is looking like this:

"version": {   
    "files": [
        {
            "url": "http://www.url.com/",
            "name": "someName"
        },
        { 
            "name": "someOtherName"
            "url": "http://www.url.com/"
            "clientreq": true
        }, ....

I really do not have much idea how i can read this file .. What i need to do is to read the lines and download the file via the "url".. I know how to download files and so on, but i dont know how i can use JSON.net to read the json file and loop through each section, and download the file..

Can you assist ?

Answer 1

The easiest way is to deserialize your json into a dynamic object like this

Then you can access its properties an loop for getting the urls

dynamic result = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(jsonString);

var urls = new List<string>();

foreach(var file in result.version.files)
{
    urls.Add(file.url); 
}