I'm new to JSON Serialization and Deserialization, so I've been googling alot about this topic, but I couldn't come to figuring out my problem. My main goal is to deserialize the JSON string and write a SQL insert statement from it. Being new to this topic, I'm not sure what deserializing a JSON string returns, but I read somewhere that it returns an object array? For example how would I deserialize this JSON string:
[{"First_Name":"Bob","Last_Name":"Smith","Job":"Engineer"},
{"First_Name":"Jane","Last_Name":"Doe","Job":"Scientist"}]
and deserialize it into a SQL statement?
Using Json.Net
var users = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<User>>(json);
Using JavaScriptSerializer
var users = new JavaScriptSerializer().Deserialize<List<User>>(json);
public class User
{
public string First_Name { get; set; }
public string Last_Name { get; set; }
public string Job { get; set; }
}
Related
I have a string in JSON format as follows
string jsonStr = "{"Type":1, "Id":1000,"Date":null,"Group": "Admin","Country":"India","Type":1}";
I want to modify this string so that Id attribute should always be the first. The order of attributes matters.
Is there any way I can modify this string.
I tried searching google but did not find appropriate solution.
Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT:
I also tried to deserialize object using
object yourOjbect = new JavaScriptSerializer().DeserializeObject(jsonStr);
But here also the "type" attribute comes first. I dont find any way to move the attributes within this deserialized object
It's possible. Use the JsonProperty attribute, property Order.
http://www.newtonsoft.com/json/help/html/JsonPropertyOrder.htm.
Let me know if it works.
Instead of attempting to manipulate the order of the outputted JSON and comparing strings, I would transform both JSON strings that you want to compare, into objects and then perform your comparison. You could then compare individual properties or entire objects with something like the following:
void CompareJSON()
{
string json = #"{""Type"":1, ""Id"":1000,""Date"":null,""Group"": ""Admin"",""Country"":""India"",""Type"":1}";
string jsonToCompare = "JSON TO COMPARE";
MyObject myJsonObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<MyObject>(json);
MyObject myJsonObjectToCompare = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<MyObject>(jsonToCompare);
if (myJsonObject.Id == myJsonObjectToCompare.Id)
{
// Do something
}
}
class MyObject
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public int Type { get; set; }
public DateTime? Date { get; set; }
public string Group { get; set; }
public string Country { get; set; }
}
Please note that this example is carried out using the Newtonsoft.JSON library. More information on the library can be found here.
Just make your JSON into a c# class with Id first and then serialize it again if that is what you need. You do know that you have "Type" twice in the JSON string? In this solution it will get "fixed" so you only have it once as it should be. But if your string really is with two Type this wont work since the strings will be incorrect. If they really are like that you need to do some ugly string manipulation to fix the order but i hope the first string is incorrect only here and not in your code.
private void Test() {
string json = #"{""Type"":1, ""Id"":1000,""Date"":null,""Group"": ""Admin"",""Country"":""India"",""Type"":1}";
JavaScriptSerializer jsonSerializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
MyJsonObject myJsonObject = jsonSerializer.Deserialize<MyJsonObject>(json);
string s = jsonSerializer.Serialize(myJsonObject);
//Returns: {"Id":1000,"Type":1,"Date":null,"Group":"Admin","Country":"India"}
}
class MyJsonObject {
public int Id { get; set; }
public int Type { get; set; }
public DateTime? Date { get; set; }
public string Group { get; set; }
public string Country { get; set; }
}
I am new to C# and trying to write some code to fetch the webpage and parse it into readable format.
I have fetched the data from webpage using uri
var uri2 = new Uri("explame.com")
I see the response in format below like this:
{"name":"abc" "country":"xyz" "citizenship":"A" [{"pincode":"111", "Dis":"no"] Lot's of data follows something like that
There are multiple with attribute "name" and "country" in response. My question is how to fetch the data something like below
name:abc
country:xyz
citizenshih:A
pincode 111
dis:no
For all attributes in response code.
Is that the exact format of the data you're getting? Because that's JSON-ish, but it's not valid JSON and wouldn't be parsed as such. If, however, you are actually getting JSON then you can de-serialize that.
Using something like Newtonsoft's JSON library you can fairly trivially de-serialize JSON into an object. For example, this JSON:
{
"name":"abc",
"country":"xyz",
"citizenship":"A",
"someProperty": [
{
"pincode":"111",
"Dis":"no"
}]
}
Might map to these types:
class MyClass
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Country { get; set; }
public string Citizenship { get; set; }
public IEnumerable<MyOtherClass> SomeProperty { get; set; }
}
class MyOtherClass
{
public string Pincode { get; set; }
public string Dis { get; set; }
}
In which case de-serializing might be as simple as this:
var myObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<MyClass>(yourJsonString);
you could try
dynamic data = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(receivedJsonString);
foreach (dynamic o in data)
{
Debug.WriteLine(o.country);
}
I have a problem with deserializing a Json-string to an object.
This is a sample json i receive from a webservice:
{
"GetDataResult":
"{
\"id\":1234,
\"cityname\":\"New York\",
\"temperature\":300,
}"
}
And I have a class CityData that looks like this
[JsonObject("GetDataResult")]
public class CityData
{
[JsonProperty("id")]
public int Id { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("cityname")]
public string CityName { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("temperature")]
public int Temperature { get; set; }
}
I try to deserialize the json with a call of the method DeserializeObject
var cityData = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<CityData>(response);
but the root element seems to make problems...
Do you guys know how I can fix it, so that I receive a CityData-object with the data filled in?
The json response contains an object that within itself contains a json string representing the data result.
You need to deserialize twice, once for the response and one more for the data result.
var response = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<JObject>(responseStr);
var dataResult = (string)response["GetDataResult"];
var cityData = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<CityData>(dataResult);
I need to deserialize the following Json, which according to Jsonlint.com is valid, but ive not come across this before or cannot find examples of similar Json and how to deal with it?
[1,"Bellegrove / Sherwood ","76705","486","Bexleyheath Ctr",1354565507000]
My current system with like this:
Data class:
[DataContract]
public class TFLCollection
{ [DataMember(Name = "arrivals")]
public IEnumerable<TFLB> TFLB { get; set; }
}
[DataContract]
public class TFLB
{
[DataMember]
public string routeName { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public string destination { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public string estimatedWait { get; set; }
}
Deserializer:
DataContractJsonSerializer serializer = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(TFLCollection));
using (var stream = new MemoryStream(Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(result)))
{ var buses = (TFLCollection)serializer.ReadObject(stream);
foreach (var bus in buses.TFLBuses)
{
StopFeed _item = new StopFeed();
_item.Route = bus.routeName;
_item.Direction = bus.destination;
_item.Time = bus.estimatedWait;
listBox1.Items.Add(_item);
My exsiting deserializer works with a full Json stream and iterates through it, but in my new Json I need to deserialize, it only have 1 item, so I wont need to iterate through it.
So is it possible to deserialize my Json example using a similar method than I currently do?
I would say that you are attempting to overcomplicate things. What you have is a perfectly formed json array of strings. If I were you I would deserialize that to an .net array first, and then write a 'mapper' function to copy the values across:
public TFLB BusRouteMapper(string[] input)
{
return new TFLB {
Route = input[x],
Direction = input[y],
};
}
And so on. Of course this assumes that you know what order your json is going to be in, but if you are attempting this in the first place then you must do!
Please help!
Getting this error on Deserializing:
Cannot convert object of type 'System.String' to type
'System.Collections.Generic.List'
JSON string from client:
"\"[{\\"id\\":\\"18_0_2_0\\",\\"ans\\":\\"You can enter free
text in place of
*\\"},{\\"id\\":\\"23_1_3_1\\",\\"ans\\":\\"The refresh button\\"},{\\"id\\":\\"11_2_1_2\\",\\"ans\\":\\"False\\"}]\""
Edit: Unescaped (see comments):
[{"id":"18_0_2_0","ans":"You can enter free text in place of *"},{"id":"11_2_1_2","ans":"False"}]
JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
List<RawAnswer> ListAnswers = serializer.Deserialize<List<RawAnswer>>(str);
[Serializable]
public class RawAnswer
{
public string QuestionID { get; set; }
public string Answer { get; set; }
public RawAnswer() { }
}
public class AnswerList
{
public List<RawAnswer> RawAnswer { get; set; }
}
Your original json string(before aKzenT's edit) was double escaped and I used var str2 = Regex.Unescape(str); to get the actual string .
public class RawAnswer
{
public string id { get; set; }
public string ans { get; set; }
}
And no need for AnswerList
Now your code can work
JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
List<RawAnswer> ListAnswers = serializer.Deserialize<List<RawAnswer>>(str);
The JSON string you receive from the client is itself a string containing the actual JSON string you're looking for. Either fix the client to send you a correct string, or first deserialize this result into a String, and then deserialize that into a List<RawAnswer>.