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C# JSON Deserialise / Get Data Pair from Data Name at Runtime

I want to create a method with the C# Newtonsoft library that can take in a parameter value to return the JSON data value, without needing to know and create a class beforehand, but all I can find are examples to deserialise into a class or into a dynamic object, both needing to know JSON structure prior at development time
Here's an example of what the kind of JSON format I'm expecting, but is subject to change:
{
"Input":
[
{
"Name": "foo"
},
{
"Name": "bar"
},
]
"Output":
[
{
"Name": "bob"
},
{
"Name": "builder"
},
]
}
I'm locked into using Newtonsoft library to work on the JSON file, or do it myself from scratch as it's an embedded system.

You can use JObject. If you deserialize a class without the type it will be deserialized to JObject. You would access your JObject values with named index which is obviously your property name. Other type of interest to you is JArray. This all resides in namespaces:
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
Example:
So the example with your JSON would be:
var json = #"{
""Input"":
[
{ ""Name"": ""foo"" },
{ ""Name"": ""bar"" }
],
""Output"":
[
{ ""Name"": ""bob"" },
{""Name"": ""builder""}
]
}";
var obj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json) as JObject;
var input = obj["Input"] as JArray;
var inputArray = input[0]["Name"];
This would get the first element in array that is in Input field - "foo".

Transform a JSON object to a JSON array, taking the first level of properties

I've this JSON object
{
"08f4f705-6e14-4781-8241-d04bf2dc6ada": {
"description": "xxxxxxxx",
"note": "yyyyyyyy"
},
"05f4f995-6e14-4567-8241-d04bf2d456ee": {
"description": "aaaaaa",
"note": "bbb"
},
"0675f995-6e14-4567-8241-d4567f2d456z": {
"description": "fffff",
"note": "gggg"
}
}
I need to convert into a JSON array like this:
(the elements should be the content of the first level properties)
[
{
"description": "xxxxxxxx",
"note": "yyyyyyyy"
},
{
"description": "aaaaaa",
"note": "bbb"
},
{
"description": "fffff",
"note": "gggg"
}
]
I can't manipulate the object and I didn't find an appropriate resource to follow. How can I do it?

You can achieve this by deserializing your json string into Dictionary<string, object>:
var obj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, object>>(json);
After that you extract the values and serialize them back to json:
var newJson = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(obj.Values);

Remove property name from Json when its array

I am converting XML to JSON.
Input:
<emp
id="17377"/>
<CustomerList>
<Customer
id="67149"/>
<Customer id="64260"/>
</CustomerList>
OutPut:
"emp": {
"id": "17377"
},
"CustomerList": {
"Customer": [
{
"id": "67149"
},
{
"id": "64260"
}
]
}
But I need the below output. But I can not remove <Customer from <CustomerList> in the input. Also Please note that I need accept dynamic name
of array input. But always i want to remove the inner property name to be removed. in this example its Customer.But I may get MarkList->Mark then I need to remove remove Mark, etc.,:
"emp": {
"id": "17377"
},
"CustomerList": [
{
"id": "67149"
},
{
"id": "64260"
}
]
Is this possible please.
I use below code to convert XML to Json:
var xml = new XmlDocument();
xml.XmlResolver = null;
xml.LoadXml(richTextBox1.Text);
var jsonText = JsonConvert.SerializeXmlNode(xml,Newtonsoft.Json.Formatting.Indented);
Note:
One solution would be find the char "[" and remove before "[" and after "{".

This is not possible, as it is simply trying to change to JSON scheme in which it was orignally built.
what you can do, is use JObject to change the value of customer to feet your needs:
JObject rss = JObject.Parse(json);
JObject customers = rss.SelectToken("CustomerList");
customers ["Customer"] = newValue;
This is the snippet, modify this in your code to feet your needs.

Extract first set of records in JSON C#

I have a requirement to get the first set of records in c# JSON. Here is my JSON data for example
string sJSON = "{
{
"ID": "1",
"Name":"John",
"Area": "Java" ,
"ID": "2",
"Name": "Matt",
"Area": "Oracle" ,
"ID": "3","Name":
"Danny","Area": "Android"
}
}"
I need to extract only the 1st set of records (i.e. {{"ID": "1", "Name":"John", "Area": "Java"}}).
If there is only one record my code (see below) works fine but when there are multiple records it takes the last set of JSON data (i.e. {{"ID": "3","Name": "Danny","Area": "Android"}}).
JObject jsonObject = JObject.Parse(sJSON);
string sID = (string)jsonObject["ID"];
string sName = (string)jsonObject["Name"];
string sArea = (string)jsonObject["Area"];
Can anyone help me extract only the 1st set of JSON data?

You return the JSON data as JSON Array, now it is a simple JSON string.
If you're able to generate like below then you can easily get the single JSON element easily.
[{ "ID": "1", "Name":"John", "Area": "Java" },{ "ID": "2","Name": "Matt","Area": "Oracle" },{ "ID": "3","Name": "Danny","Area": "Android" } ]
Use the below link, to understand this JSON format.
http://json.parser.online.fr/

Parse the data as JToken.
Such that you have something like:
var jToken = JToken.Parse(sJSON);
var isEnumerable = jToken.IsEnumerable()
if(isEnumeable)
{
cast as JArray and get firstOrdefault
}
var isObject = jToken.IsObject();
if(isObject )
{
cast as JObject and perform straight casting
}

Json to C# object with google spreadsheet

EDITED:
If I load a google spreadsheet using JSON URL into a dynamic C# object, I can't access some entries because the JSON looks like this:
"author": [
{
"name": {
"$t": "XYZ"
},
"email": {
"$t": "XYZ#gmail.com"
}
}
]
Why does the google JSON have $ namespaces? Can we remove them? What can be done?
Here is the code:
var json = new WebClient().DownloadString(#"GoogleUrlWithJson");
dynamic jsonObj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json);
string a = jsonObj.feed.entry[0].author.name.$t; ==> Can't compile error "unexpected $"

Try using square bracket syntax to access the JSON property names that have $ in them:
string a = jsonObj.feed.entry[0].author.name["$t"];