I'm trying to deserialize JSON in this format:
{
"data": [
{
"installed": 1,
"user_likes": 1,
"user_education_history": 1,
"friends_education_history": 1,
"bookmarked": 1
}
]
}
to a simple string array like this:
{
"installed",
"user_likes",
"user_education_history",
"friends_education_history",
"bookmarked"
}
using JSON.NET 4.0
I've gotten it to work using the `CustomCreationConverter'
public class ListConverter : CustomCreationConverter<List<string>>
{
public override List<string> Create(Type objectType)
{
return new List<string>();
}
public override object ReadJson(JsonReader reader, Type objectType, object existingValue, JsonSerializer serializer)
{
var lst = new List<string>();
//don't care about the inital 'data' element
reader.Read();
while (reader.Read())
{
if (reader.TokenType == JsonToken.PropertyName)
{
lst.Add(reader.Value.ToString());
}
}
return lst;
}
}
but this really seems like overkill, especially if I want to create one for many different json responses.
I've tried using JObject
but it doesn't seem like I'm doing it right:
List<string> lst = new List<string>();
JObject j = JObject.Parse(json_string);
foreach (JProperty p in j.SelectToken("data").Children().Children())
{
lst.Add(p.Name);
}
Is there a better way to do this?
There are many ways you can do that, and what you have is fine. A few other alternatives are shown below:
Use SelectToken
to go to the first array element with a single call
string json = @"{
""data"": [
{
""installed"": 1,
""user_likes"": 1,
""user_education_history"": 1,
""friends_education_history"": 1,
""bookmarked"": 1
}
]
}";
JObject j = JObject.Parse(json);
// Directly traversing the graph
var lst = j["data"][0].Select(jp => ((JProperty)jp).Name).ToList();
Console.WriteLine(string.Join("--", lst));
// Using SelectToken
lst = j.SelectToken("data[0]").Children<JProperty>().Select(p => p.Name).ToList();
Console.WriteLine(string.Join("--", lst));
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