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Unity Facebook SDK, retrieve data from 'apprequests' from API

I am fetching /me/apprequests from Facebook API. It works and I get the data in JSON format.
Thing is that everything is nested, like a dictionary inside a dictionary.
What i tried:
Dictionary<string, object> dict = Facebook.MiniJSON.Json.Deserialize(result.RawResult) as Dictionary<string, object>;
object data;
string request_code = "";
if (dict.TryGetValue("data", out data))
{
var rc = (((Dictionary<string, object>)data)["id"]);
request_code = (string)rc;
}
Debug.Log("request_code=" + request_code);
I think I need to loop the dictionary to get all id's.
I can confirm that if (dict.TryGetValue("data", out data)) does work correctly and get the dictionary of data arrays, but fails here (((Dictionary<string, object>)data)["id"]); with casting error.
Json looks like:
{
"data": [{
"application": {
"category": "Games",
"link": "https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/games\/?app_id=2523532533",
"name": "game name",
"id": "23432423423"
},
"created_time": "2019-02-27T16:01:15+0000",
"from": {
"name": "David boom",
"id": "387923432423089962"
},
"message": "You are invited",
"to": {
"name": "Dusty Spice",
"id": "10234324421033685"
},
"id": "413880842521239_10156578101000000"
},
{
"application": {
"category": "Games",
"link": "https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/games\/?app_id=2523532533",
"name": "game name",
"id": "23432423423"
},
"created_time": "2019-02-27T14:12:41+0000",
"from": {
"name": "David boom2",
"id": "387923432423089962"
},
"message": "You are invited",
"to": {
"name": "Dusty Spice",
"id": "10234324421033685"
},
"id": "316676422209302_10156578101000000"
}],
"paging": {
"cursors": {
"before": "NDEzODgwODQyNTIxMjM5Ojc1OTQzODY4NAZDZD",
"after": "MzE2Njc2NDIyMjA5MzAyOjc1OTQzODY4NAZDZD"
}
}
}

Managed to make it work if it will help someone:
string request_code = "";
if (dict.TryGetValue("data", out data))
{
int dataLength = ((List<object>)data).Count;
for (int i = 0; i < dataLength; i++)
{
var rc = ((List<object>)data)[i];
var rc2 = (((Dictionary<string, object>)rc)["id"]);
request_code = (string)rc2;
Debug.Log("request_code=" + request_code);
}
}

Transform nested JSON arrays into an array of JSON objects

I have the following set of variable JSON data where the first row is the list of element names and the other rows represent the list of element values:
[
[
"category",
"author",
"title",
"price"
],
[
"reference",
"Nigel Rees",
"Sayings of the Century",
"8.95"
],
[
"fiction",
"Evelyn Waugh",
"Sword of Honour",
"12.99"
],
[
"fiction",
"Herman Melville",
"Moby Dick",
"8.99"
],
[
"fiction",
"J. R. R. Tolkien",
"The Lord of the Rings",
"22.99"
]
]
I want to build the following type of JSON object from the data:
{
"book": [
{
"category": "reference",
"author": "Nigel Rees",
"title": "Sayings of the Century",
"price": 8.95
},
{
"category": "fiction",
"author": "Evelyn Waugh",
"title": "Sword of Honour",
"price": 12.99
},
{
"category": "fiction",
"author": "Herman Melville",
"title": "Moby Dick",
"isbn": "0-553-21311-3",
"price": 8.99
},
{
"category": "fiction",
"author": "J. R. R. Tolkien",
"title": "The Lord of the Rings",
"isbn": "0-395-19395-8",
"price": 22.99
}
]
}
How can I build my JSON object which should be identical to the above. I don't see any direct support for doing this using JSON.NET APIs.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

This is just an idea to get you on the right track.
JObject obj = new JObject();
var child = new JArray();
var child2 = new JObject();
child2.Add("category", "references");
child.Add(child2);
obj.Add("book", child);
var result = obj.ToString();
I won't do the string parsing for you, i think you should be able to handle that.
The piece of code I've given produces the following JSON:
{
"book": [
{
"category": "references"
}
]
}
Hope this helps.

You can do this transformation using Json.Net's LINQ-to-JSON API:
JArray array = JArray.Parse(origJson);
string[] keys = array.First().Select(t => t.ToString()).ToArray();
JArray array2 =
new JArray(array.Skip(1).Select(a =>
new JObject(a.Select((t, i) =>
new JProperty(keys[i], t)
))
));
JObject obj = new JObject(new JProperty("book", array2));
string finalJson = obj.ToString();
Fiddle: https://dotnetfiddle.net/kMyHOe

get Specific Id from json file

this is my json file
{
{
"#odata.context": "https://api.onedrive.com/v1.0/$metadata#drives('me')/items('root')/children/$entity",
"createdBy": {
"application": {
"displayName": "Nopbackup",
"id": "4c190e01"
},
"user": {
"displayName": "pallav jha",
"id": "611c19eb038d5aa1"
}
},
"createdDateTime": "2016-05-12T07:25:36.463Z",
"cTag": "adDo2MTFDMTlFQjAzOEQ1QUExITEyNC42MzU5ODYzODk5MTI3MDAwMDA",
"eTag": "aNjExQzE5RUIwMzhENUFBMSExMjQuMw",
"id": "611C19EB038D5AA1!124",
"lastModifiedBy": {
"application": {
"displayName": "Nopbackup",
"id": "4c190e01"
},
"user": {
"displayName": "pallav jha",
"id": "611c19eb038d5aa1"
}
},
"lastModifiedDateTime": "2016-05-12T08:36:31.27Z",
"name": "Nopbackup",
"parentReference": {
"driveId": "611c19eb038d5aa1",
"id": "611C19EB038D5AA1!105",
"path": "/drive/root:"
},
"size": 0,
"webUrl": "https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=611C19EB038D5AA1!124",
"fileSystemInfo": {
"createdDateTime": "2016-05-12T07:25:36.463Z",
"lastModifiedDateTime": "2016-05-12T08:36:31.27Z"
},
"folder": {
"childCount": 0
}
}
}
i want to get this "id": "4c190e01" from json
dynamic value = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(result);
string id = Convert.ToString(value.id[0]);
this is my code but i am not getting 4c190e01 id

rewrite your code as following...
dynamic valuePoco = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(result);
string id = Convert.ToString(valuePoco.createdBy.application.id);

You can use the path to the desired property. If you want to select the element with 4c190e01 as id, you can use
string id = value.createdBy.application.id;
or
string id = value.lastModifiedBy.application.id;
depending on your needs.
As it was pointed out, you'd need to fix your JSON first and remove the first { and the last }

First thing first, Your json is invalid.
You've to remove one { from top and } from the bottom and then use the following code:
dynamic jsonObj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(result);
string id = jsonObj.createdBy.application.id.ToString();

Sort properties json without serializing to a model

I have two json strings I want to compare.
The problem is that when the properties are the same but in a different order.
Simple example:
{
"Number": "123",
"Name": "My name",
"FirstName": "My First name",
"Prop1": false,
"Prop2": [],
"Plans": [],
"SomeList": [
{
"Code": "118",
"Period": {
"From": "2000-01-27T00:00:00.0000000",
"Until": "2003-12-31T00:00:00.0000000"
}
},
{
"Code": "120",
"Period": {
"From": "2004-01-01T00:00:00.0000000",
"Until": "2004-12-31T00:00:00.0000000"
}
}
]
}
and
{
"Number": "123",
"FirstName": "My First name",
"Name": "My name",
"Prop1": false,
"Prop2": [],
"Plans": [],
"SomeList": [
{
"Code": "120",
"Period": {
"From": "2004-01-01T00:00:00.0000000",
"Until": "2004-12-31T00:00:00.0000000"
}
},
{
"Code": "118",
"Period": {
"From": "2000-01-27T00:00:00.0000000",
"Until": "2003-12-31T00:00:00.0000000"
}
}
]
}
These two json's are equal.
The compare function JToken.DeepEquals says it's not equal.
And I don't want to serialize to an object XYZ to compare both jsons.
I want to sort the properties of the json so the JToken.DeepEquals works fine.

How to convert the following list to a dictionary?

The following code:
var data = _context.People.ToList(); //_context is my DataContext.
produces the result:
[{ "name": "john", "age": "30" }, { "name": "jane", "age": "31" }]
but, I want it to be a dictionary, so something like:
{ "xldata" : [{ "name": "john", "age": "30" }, { "name": "jane", "age": "31" }] }
I got it to work by doing:
Dictionary<string,List<People>> vals = new Dictionary<string, List<People>>();
vals.Add("xldata", people);
but, my dictionary's value is System.Object[] instead of the people
The purpose of this is to export data, so when I get to this line:
var people = jss.Deserialize<List<People>>(args["xldata"]);
args["xldata"] is `System.Object[]` and it says `Invalid JSON primitive`.
Here is the script is supposed to export the data to excel:
$.post(urlContent + exportHandlerPath, Json, function(data) {
var viewData = {};
viewData.xldata = JSON.stringify(data);
html = ich.excelExportTemplate(viewData);
$excelExportContainer.html(html);
var input = $excelExportContainer.find('input#excelExportHiddenField');
input.val(viewData.xldata);
var $excelForm = $('#excelExportForm');
$excelForm.attr('action', '/People/ExportToExcel/');
$excelForm.submit();
}

Apparently your args["xldata"] does not contain a json string like [{ "name": "john", "age": "30" }, { "name": "jane", "age": "31" }], but something returned by a .net object .ToString().
With JavaScriptSerializer.Deserialize you can only deserialize json represenations.