Searching in json array - c#

{
"medic":[
{
"ace":[
{
"name":"lisinopril",
"strength":"10 mg Tab",
"dose":"1 tab",
"route":"PO",
"sig":"daily",
"pillCount":"#90",
"refills":"Refill 3"
}
],
"anti":[
{
"name":"nitroglycerin",
"strength":"0.4 mg Sublingual Tab",
"dose":"1 tab",
"route":"SL",
"sig":"q15min PRN",
"pillCount":"#30",
"refills":"Refill 1"
}
],
"anticoag":[
{
"name":"warfarin sodium",
"strength":"3 mg Tab",
"dose":"1 tab",
"route":"PO",
"sig":"daily",
"pillCount":"#90",
"refills":"Refill 3"
}
],
}
]
}
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// ""reporttype"":""post"",
string jsonString = #"..."; //The above json
Console.WriteLine("Enter the Medication name in which you want to Find STRENGTH value :");
string medicname = Console.ReadLine();
var rootInstance = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Rootobject>(jsonString);
}
}
var result = rootInstance.medications[0].Where(x=>x.name == medicname ).Select(t => t.strength).ToList();
But when i run the above query, I get this below error:
'Medication' does not contain a definition for 'Where' and no accessible extension method 'Where' accepting a first argument of type 'Medication' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
I have added all necessary namespaces to my code.
and Here is my object class
public class Rootobject
{
public List<Medication> medications { get; set; }
}
public class Medication
{
public List<aceInhibitors> aceinhibitors { get ; set ; }
public List<anti> antianginal {get; set; }
public List<anticoag> anticoagulants {get; set; }
}
public class aceInhibitors
{
[JsonProperty("name")]
public string name { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("strength")]
public string strength { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("dose")]
public string dose { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("route")]
public string route { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("sig")]
public string sig { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("pillCount")]
public string pillCount { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("refills")]
public string refills { get; set; }
}
public class anti
{
public string name { get; set; }
public string strength { get; set; }
public string dose { get; set; }
public string route { get; set; }
public string sig { get; set; }
public string pillCount { get; set; }
public string refills { get; set; }
}
public class anticoag
{
public string name { get; set; }
public string strength { get; set; }
public string dose { get; set; }
public string route { get; set; }
public string sig { get; set; }
public string pillCount { get; set; }
public string refills { get; set; }
}

Your Medication object itself is not searchable. Instead it holds a bunch of list and each contains a different type (where all properties are the same). So maybe you should use some base class for the medicine and add another property to your Medication class. In that case you would have a class layout something like this:
public class Rootobject
{
public List<Medication> medications { get; set; }
}
public class Medication
{
public List<aceInhibitors> aceinhibitors { get; set; }
public List<antianginal> antianginal { get; set; }
public List<anticoagulants> anticoagulants { get; set; }
public List<betaBlocker> betablocker { get; set; }
public List<diuretic> diuretic { get; set; }
public List<Mineral> mineral { get; set; }
public IEnumerable<Medicine> Medicines => Enumerable.Empty<Medicine>()
.Concat(aceinhibitors)
.Concat(antianginal)
.Concat(anticoagulants)
.Concat(betablocker)
.Concat(diuretic)
.Concat(mineral);
}
public class Medicine
{
[JsonProperty("name")]
public string name { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("strength")]
public string strength { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("dose")]
public string dose { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("route")]
public string route { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("sig")]
public string sig { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("pillCount")]
public string pillCount { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("refills")]
public string refills { get; set; }
}
public class aceInhibitors : Medicine
{
}
public class antianginal : Medicine
{
}
public class anticoagulants : Medicine
{
}
public class betaBlocker : Medicine
{
}
public class diuretic : Medicine
{
}
public class Mineral : Medicine
{
}
And prepared with that you could now ask something like that:
var result = rootInstance.medications[0].Medicines
.Where(x => x.name == medicname)
.Select(t => t.strength)
.ToList();
If the model of the classes really matches your desires is up to you, but it should give you starting point.
If you want it more inline you could also do something like this:
public class Medication : IEnumerable<Medicine>
{
public List<aceInhibitors> aceinhibitors { get; set; }
public List<antianginal> antianginal { get; set; }
public List<anticoagulants> anticoagulants { get; set; }
public List<betaBlocker> betablocker { get; set; }
public List<diuretic> diuretic { get; set; }
public List<Mineral> mineral { get; set; }
public IEnumerator<Medicine> GetEnumerator()
{
return Enumerable.Empty<Medicine>()
.Concat(aceinhibitors)
.Concat(antianginal)
.Concat(anticoagulants)
.Concat(betablocker)
.Concat(diuretic)
.Concat(mineral)
.GetEnumerator();
}
IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator()
{
return GetEnumerator();
}
And in that case you could write something like this:
var result = rootInstance.medications[0]
.Where(x => x.name == medicname)
.Select(t => t.strength)
.ToList();

Your domain model is bit suboptimal as it was pointed out by Oliver. If you need to stick to this model, then you can do the following.
Introduce an interface for fields that are interesting from your query point of view:
public interface InterestingFields
{
string name { get; }
string strength { get; }
}
Each medication class can be easily adjusted to implement it, like:
public class Mineral: InterestingFields
{
public string name { get; set; }
public string strength { get; set; }
public string dose { get; set; }
public string route { get; set; }
public string sig { get; set; }
public string pillCount { get; set; }
public string refills { get; set; }
}
Make the properties of the Medication class queryable
var properties = typeof(Medication).GetProperties()
.Where(prop => prop.PropertyType.IsGenericType
&& prop.PropertyType.GetGenericTypeDefinition() == typeof(List<>)
&& typeof(InterestingFields).IsAssignableFrom(prop.PropertyType.GetGenericArguments()[0]))
.ToList();
I've used reflection where the property's type is a List<T> and T is assignable to InterestingFields
Go through the properties, retrieve the actual value and do the filtering based on that
var medication = rootInstance.medications[0];
var result = from property in properties
let collection = property.GetValue(medication) as IEnumerable<InterestingFields>
let element = collection?.ToArray().First()
where element?.name == medicname
select element.strength;
Console.WriteLine(result.First());

Proper design would lead to a separation from the data handling and the way that your data is stored. This way, it is easy to reuse the stored data for other handling, it is easier to unit test the data handling with test code, you can change the way that the data is stored, to for instance a CSV file, or XML, without having to change the data handling code.
So you need a class Medication:
class Medication
{
public string Name {get; set;}
public string Strength {get; set;}
public string Dose {get; set;}
... // etc.
}
Consider to change Dose and Strength to a numerical value.
Apparently you have stored all Medications somewhere. A proper software design would hide where it is stored, and what format it is stored in. All you know is, that you can store Medications in it, and fetch it back later, even after your program is restarted. Such a storage is often called a Repository:
class MedicationRepository
{
public IEnumerable<Medication> ReadMedications() {...}
}
The actual implementation is up to you. I think you'll use Nuget Package NewtonSoft Json for this. Maybe you also want methods to Add / Change / Remove Medications?
Consider to let the Repository class implement IEnumerable<Medication>, or even ICollection<Medication>, depending on what is most efficient in your case.
class MedicationRepository : IEnumerable<Medication>
{
public IEnumerator<Medication> GetEnumerator()
{
return this.ReadMedications().GetEnumerator();
}
...
}
Now that you've got a method to read all Medications, we can get back to your LINQ problem:
I need get input string from user(which is medication name in json) i need to check if input matches the name in medication and need to display corresponding strength value.
So you've got a procedure to read the medication name:
public string ReadMedicationName() {...}
And you want the Strength of all Medications with this name.
MedicationRepository medications = ...
string requestedMedicationName = this.ReadMedicationName();
string medicationStrength = medications
.Where(medication => medication.Name == requestedMedicationName)
.Select(medication => medication.Strength)
.FirstOrDefault();
In words: from all Medications, keep only those Medications that have a name that equals requestedMedicationName. If the name is unique, then there will be zero or one Medication left. From all remaining Medications, take only the value of property Strength, and take the first strength, or null if there is no Medication with this Name at all.
Can it be that there are several Medications with this name? Which one do you want in that case, just any Strength (= .FirstOrDefault()), all Strengths (= ToList())? In the latter case: how do you distinguish which Medication with this name contains which Strength? Consider to Select more properties in that case.
Conclusion
By separating the storage of the data and how you get the requested Medication Name from the data handling, it is easier to change the storage (to XML, to CSV, to a database), and it is easier to unit test the LINQ using specific test data.
Similarly: you've hidden how you get the name of the requested Medication: is it a DOS prompt? Did you read it from a file? Maybe you've changed it to a WinForms application and you read it from a Textbox, or a ComboBox. Because you separated, the LINQ doesn't have to change, and can be reused in several platforms.

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I have a db with some tables in which items contains some localized string. The plan is to have an ID to a dedicated "Localization" table.
public class User
{
public int Id {get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public Localization Signature { get; set; }
}
public class Item
{
public int Id {get; set; }
...
public Localization Title { get; set; }
}
public class Localization
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public string En { get; set; }
public string Fr { get; set; }
public string De { get; set; }
}
This works. But the goal is now to have a "dynamic" list of languages, so we could easy extend the localization to other languages.
I can solve this with a JSON field in which I serialize the languages string, but it has the disadvantage to lose the readability in any DB Viewer. So if possible, I would like to have real columns.
Is there any way to solve this use case with EF Core ?
I'd approach this not by adding columns to the database (which requires a change to the DB structure) but by adding rows:
public class Item
{
public int Id {get; set; }
...
public string Title { get; set; }
}
public class Localization
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public int ItemId { get; set; }
public string LanguageCode { get; set; }
public string Text { get; set; }
}
Then load item's title along the lines of:
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Not able validate data condition based on the json element attribute value from a json using c#

I have a json file, where i have to validate a json attribute element value based on another json element attribute value. But if there json elements with the same name. It always takes the last value always instead of parsing the json data fully. Please guide me.
Below the sample json file
{
"PLMXML":{
"language":"en-us",
"author":"Developer",
"date":"2020-05-22",
"traverseRootRefs":"#id6",
"Operation":{
"id":"id21",
"subType":"BS4_BaOP",
"catalogueId":"70700000209604"
},
"Operation":{
"id":"id28",
"subType":"BS4_BaOP",
"catalogueId":"70700000209603"
},
"OperationRevision":{
"id":"id6",
"subType":"BS4_BaOPRevision",
"masterRef":"#id21",
"revision":"A1"
}
}
}
And below the code which im trying to use
public void Readjsonfile(string jsondata)
{
var message = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<plmxmldatamodel>(jsondata);
if (String.Equals(message.PLMXML.traverseRootRefs.Substring(1), message.PLMXML.OperationRevision.id))
{
Console.WriteLine("Condtion1");
if (String.Equals(message.PLMXML.OperationRevision.masterRef.Substring(1), message.PLMXML.Operation.id))
{
Console.WriteLine("Condition_2");
//Do something based on the condtion
}
}
}
public class Operation
{
public string id { get; set; }
public string subType { get; set; }
public string catalogueId { get; set; }
}
public class OperationRevision
{
public string id { get; set; }
public string subType { get; set; }
public string masterRef { get; set; }
}
public class PLMXML
{
public string language { get; set; }
public string author { get; set; }
public string date { get; set; }
public string traverseRootRefs { get; set; }
public Operation Operation { get; set; }
public OperationRevision OperationRevision { get; set; }
}
public class plmxmldatamodel
{
public PLMXML PLMXML { get; set; }
}
When i try to dedug this in the second if condtion, the value for message.PLMXML.Operation.id is always id28 , because of which second if condition fails. While the first if condition is passed as there is only one message.PLMXML.OperationRevision.id. i wanted behaviour where it would check complete json data and check if message.PLMXML.Operation.id with value id21 is present or not , So my data gets passed. Please kindly guide me here.I am very new to C# here.
From my observation you have couple of issues.
What happen you have double keys, and your parser taking the last value not the first one.
First of all your json should be corrected. I assume you have access to change your json and operation should be an array like follow:
{
"PLMXML":{
"language":"en-us",
"author":"Developer",
"date":"2020-05-22",
"traverseRootRefs":"#id6",
"Operations":[
{
"id":"id21",
"subType":"BS4_BaOP",
"catalogueId":"70700000209604"
},
{
"id":"id28",
"subType":"BS4_BaOP",
"catalogueId":"70700000209603"
}
],
"OperationRevision":{
"id":"id6",
"subType":"BS4_BaOPRevision",
"masterRef":"#id21",
"revision":"A1"
}
}
}
When array in place than use an online tool like to validate your json and use this tool to create a model.
Your model will be like this:
public partial class PlmxmlDataModel
{
[JsonProperty("PLMXML")]
public Plmxml Plmxml { get; set; }
}
public partial class Plmxml
{
[JsonProperty("language")]
public string Language { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("author")]
public string Author { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("date")]
public DateTimeOffset Date { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("traverseRootRefs")]
public string TraverseRootRefs { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("Operations")]
public Operation[] Operations { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("OperationRevision")]
public OperationRevision OperationRevision { get; set; }
}
public partial class OperationRevision
{
[JsonProperty("id")]
public string Id { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("subType")]
public string SubType { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("masterRef")]
public string MasterRef { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("revision")]
public string Revision { get; set; }
}
public partial class Operation
{
[JsonProperty("id")]
public string Id { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("subType")]
public string SubType { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("catalogueId")]
public string CatalogueId { get; set; }
}
And your method like this:
public void Readjsonfile(string jsondata)
{
var message = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<PlmxmlDataModel>(jsondata);
if (String.Equals(message.Plmxml.TraverseRootRefs.Substring(1), message.Plmxml.OperationRevision.Id))
{
Console.WriteLine("Condtion1");
if (String.Equals(message.Plmxml.OperationRevision.MasterRef.Substring(1), message.Plmxml.Operations[0].Id))
{
Console.WriteLine("Condition_2");
//Do something based on the condtion
}
}
}
Now in your method I am looking for array index 0 with contain id 28, but if you are look for id 28 in any of the array then you can do some thing like:
if (message.Plmxml.Operations.Any(e => e.Id == message.Plmxml.OperationRevision.MasterRef.Substring(1)))

C# Linq search inside object linked property

i'm trying to do some search inside some attributes of my object set but i'm getting some trouble on the right way to mount my linq query, i have my VT_Video class which has its attributes and some linked objects
public partial class VT_Video
{
public int ID { get; set; }
public string title { get; set; }
public string description { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<VT_VideoTag> VT_VideoTag { get; set; }
}
public partial class VT_VideoTag
{
public int ID { get; set; }
public int tagID { get; set; }
public int videoID { get; set; }
public virtual VT_Tag VT_Tag { get; set; }
public virtual VT_Video VT_Video { get; set; }
}
public partial class VT_Tag
{
public int ID { get; set; }
public string name { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<VT_VideoTag> VT_VideoTag { get; set; }
}
What i want to accomplish is search a user given word inside my Video collection by VT_Video.title, VT_Video.description and also by VT_Video.VT_VideoTag.VT_Tag.name, what i managed to do so far is only search the title and description:
var myVideos = db.VT_Video.Include("VT_VideoTag")
.Include("VT_VideoTag.VT_Tag")
.Where(vid =>
vid.descricao.Contains(strBusca) ||
vid.titulo.Contains(strBusca)).ToList();
Now, i know i can do what i want with some foreach and extra code but i wondered if it would be possible to do it using linq and also keep my code clean.
Thanks.
I have not worked with LINQ to SQL much, but it seems like .Any() would satisfy your requirement:
var myVideos = db.VT_Video.Include("VT_VideoTag")
.Include("VT_VideoTag.VT_Tag")
.Where(vid =>
vid.descricao.Contains(strBusca) ||
vid.titulo.Contains(strBusca) ||
vid.VT_VideoTag.Any(tag => tag.name.Contains(strBusca))).ToList();
Notice I added this clause:
vid.VT_VideoTag.Any(tag => tag.name.Contains(strBusca))
Which returns true if any tag in the collection has a name that contains your search string.

C# Accessing a methods value dynamically using a string

I am currently setting some strings via this method:
string marketlabel = allmarketdata.#return.markets.COLXPM.label.ToString();
I would like to set the market label dynamically by having a string for the actual market choice.
string currentMarketSelected= this.marketTextBox.Text; // Specific market: COLXPM
string marketlabel=allmarketdata.#return.markets.currentMarketSelected.label.ToString();
I have been searching for a few hours and probably am not explaining correctly. I tried some stuff with reflections with no success. Basically what I want to do is have a textbox or list which contains all the market names and based on which one is selected start setting the data.
Above is the best type of example of what I want to do even though it is not syntactically possible to use a variable in place.
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{
public COLXPM COLXPM { get; set; }
//Lots of markets below here
}
public class COLXPM
{
public string marketid { get; set; }
public string label { get; set; }
public string lasttradeprice { get; set; }
public string volume { get; set; }
public string lasttradetime { get; set; }
public string primaryname { get; set; }
public string primarycode { get; set; }
public string secondaryname { get; set; }
public string secondarycode { get; set; }
public List<Recenttrade> recenttrades { get; set; }
public List<Sellorder> sellorders { get; set; }
public List<Buyorder> buyorders { get; set; }
}
public class Return
{
public Markets markets { get; set; }
}
public class RootObject
{
public int success { get; set; }
public Return #return { get; set; }
}
The proposed solution below that worked
string currentMarketSelected = "DOGEBTC"; // Just selecting one of the markets to test it works
var property = allmarketdata.#return.markets.GetType().GetProperty(currentMarketSelected);
dynamic market = property.GetMethod.Invoke(allmarketdata.#return.markets, null);
string marketlabel = market.label.ToString(); //Gets all my selected market data
Here is a solution using reflection.
string currentMarketSelected= this.marketTextBox.Text; // Specific market: COLXPM
var property = allmarketdata.#return.markets.GetType().GetProperty(currentMarketSelected);
dynamic market = property.GetGetMethod().Invoke(allmarketdata.#return.markets, null);
string marketlabel=market.label.ToString();
You need something like this:
public class Markets
{
public COLXPM this[string key]
{
get
{
COLXPM colxpm;
switch (key)
{
// TODO : use "key" to select instance of COLXPM;
case "example1":
colxpm = ...;
break;
default:
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
return colxpm;
}
}
}
Then you can do something like:
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This is an indexed property.

Updating List<T> in DbContext

I have a Model like this
public class Challenge
{
public int ID { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Blurb { get; set; }
public int Points { get; set; }
public string Category { get; set; }
public string Flag { get; set; }
public List<string> SolvedBy { get; set; }
}
public class ChallengeDBContext : DbContext
{
public DbSet<Challenge> Challenges { get; set; }
}
and then Controller like this. But I cannot update the List "SolvedBy", the next time I step through with the debugger, the list is still empty.
[HttpPost]
public string Index(string flag = "", int id=0)
{
Challenge challenge = db.Challenges.Find(id);
if (flag == challenge.Flag)
{
var chall = db.Challenges.Find(id);
if (chall.SolvedBy == null)
{
chall.SolvedBy = new List<string>();
}
chall.SolvedBy.Add(User.Identity.Name);
db.Entry(chall).State = EntityState.Modified;
db.SaveChanges();
//congrats, you solved the puzzle
return "got it";
}
else
{
return "fail";
}
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is there any way around it to make a list of strings kept in the database?
EF don't know how to store an array in database table so it just ignore it. You can create another table/entity or use XML/JSON to store the list. You can serialize the list before saving and deserialize it after loading from database
A List<T> in a model would normally map to a second table, but in your DbContext you only have a single table. Try adding a second table.
public class ChallengeDBContext : DbContext
{
public DbSet<Challenge> Challenges { get; set; }
public DbSet<Solution> Solutions {get; set;}
}
public class Challenge
{
public int ID { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Blurb { get; set; }
public int Points { get; set; }
public string Category { get; set; }
public string Flag { get; set; }
public List<Solution> SolvedBy { get; set; }
}
public class Solution
{
public int ID { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
}
Then your controller can use code along the lines of...
var chall = db.Challenges.Find(id);
if (chall.SolvedBy == null)
{
chall.SolvedBy = new List<Solution>();
}
chall.SolvedBy.Add(new Solution {Name=User.Identity.Name});
None of the above has been tested and I may have made some mistakes there, but the general principle I want to illustrate is the fact that you need another table. The List<T> represents a JOIN in SQL.

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