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How to access multiple groups of nested JSON elements in C#?

I have a JSON being received from a public API that follows the structure below.
[
{
"ID": "12345",
"company": [
{
"contract_ID": "abc5678",
"company": [
{
"company_name": "HelloWorld",
"company_logo": "HW",
"invested": "2000"
}
]
},
{
"contract_ID": "67891",
"company": [
{
"company_name": "GoodBye",
"company_logo": "GB",
"invested": "500"
}
]
},
{
"contract_ID": "32658",
"company": [
{
"company_name": "YesNo",
"company_logo": "YN",
"invested": "1500"
}
]
}
]
}
]
I've tried several different methods of parsing, whether it be JTokens/JArrays or various classes. Something like the following allows me to access the first group of values (company_name, company_logo, invested), but I cannot iterate through to find the other two.
//receiving the json data
var responseString = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
var fullJSON = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(responseString);
Debug.Log(fullJSON);
//trying to parse it down to just the data I need
JToken token = JToken.Parse("{\"root\":" + responseString + "}");
Debug.Log(token);
JArray assets = (JArray)token.SelectToken("root[0].assets");
Debug.Log(assets);
JToken dig = JToken.Parse("{\"root\":" + assets + "}");
Debug.Log(dig);
JArray assetsNested = (JArray)dig.SelectToken("root[0].assets");
Debug.Log(assetsNested);
My goal is to extract the contract_ID and then the associated company_name, company_logo, and invested items. For example, abc5678, HelloWorld, HW, and 2000 would be one of the three datasets needed.

The easiest way to deserialize this properly and keep your code maintainable is to use concrete classes. For example:
public sealed class Company
{
[JsonProperty("contract_ID")]
public string ContractID { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("company")]
public List<CompanyDefinition> CompanyDefinitions { get; set; }
}
public sealed class CompanyDefinition
{
[JsonProperty("company_name")]
public string CompanyName { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("company_logo")]
public string CompanyLogo { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("invested")]
public string Invested { get; set; }
}
public sealed class RootCompany
{
[JsonProperty("ID")]
public string ID { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("company")]
public List<Company> Company { get; set; }
}
Then, you simply deserialize. For example, if you are pulling from a file you could do this:
using(var sr = new StreamReader(#"c:\path\to\json.json"))
using(var jtr = new JsonTextReader(sr))
{
var result = new JsonSerializer().Deserialize<RootCompany[]>(jtr);
foreach(var r in result)
{
Console.WriteLine($"Company ID: {r.ID}");
foreach(var c in r.Company)
{
Console.WriteLine($"ContractID: {c.ContractID}");
foreach(var d in c.CompanyDefinitions)
{
Console.WriteLine($"Name: {d.CompanyName}");
Console.WriteLine($"Invested: {d.Invested}");
Console.WriteLine($"Company Logo: {d.CompanyLogo}");
}
}
}
}
When something changes with your models, you won't have to dig through lines upon lines of hard-to-read token selection code. You just update your models.

How can i search a json response to see if a value exists using linq?

I have the following json response
{
"Id": "1234",
"Name": "Test",
"Orders": [
{
"OrderId": "87654",
"OrderDetails": {
"OrdId": "1234",
"Name": "Desk"
}
},
{
"OrderId": "54213",
"OrderDetails": {
"OrdId": "4321",
"Name": "Table"
}
}
]
}
I want to search the list of orders to see if there is an OrderId of 87654.
I can do with an array , but how can I do it with Linq ?

You can deserialize the json string to a JObject using Newtonsoft.Json and then loop through the orders to get the OrderIDs.
var obj = JObject.Parse(json);
foreach(var order in obj["Orders"])
{
Console.WriteLine(order["OrderId"]);
}
or you can use the Where clause.
var myOrder = obj["Orders"].Where(x => x["OrderId"].ToString().Equals("87654")).FirstOrDefault();
Then you can print any property of that order,
Console.WriteLine(myOrder["OrderDetails"]["Name"].ToString());
// Prints: Desk
Alternatively, you can: also use classes to deserialize the json you have and query the orders.
public class OrderDetails
{
public string OrdId { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
}
public class Order
{
public string OrderId { get; set; }
public OrderDetails OrderDetails { get; set; }
}
public class RootObject
{
public string Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public List<Order> Orders { get; set; }
}
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
string json = File.ReadAllText(#"C:\temp\json.txt");
var obj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<RootObject>(json);
var myOrder = obj.Orders.FirstOrDefault(x => x.OrderId.Equals("87654"));
if (myOrder != null)
{
Console.WriteLine(myOrder.OrderDetails.Name);
}
}

Demo on dotnet fiddle
You can use Newtonsoft to achieve it
var jsonData = "{ 'Id': '1234', 'Name': 'Test', 'Orders': [ {'OrderId': '87654', 'OrderDetails': { 'OrdId': '1234', 'Name': 'Desk' } }, { 'OrderId': '54213', 'OrderDetails': { 'OrdId': '4321','Name': 'Table' }}]}";
var desirializedData = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<MyObject>(jsonData);
var result = desirializedData.Orders.Where(p => p.OrderId == 87654);
foreach(var master in result)
{
Console.WriteLine(master.OrderId + " " + master.OrderDetails.Name);
}

Extract array from JSON object containing multiple types

(Just a heads up, I'm very new to C#)
(See sample code and JSON structure below)
I can't figure out how to pull "data" out of the JSON reponse and put it into a data table. The variable "response" is just raw JSON data. So far I've figured out how to parse the JSON into a JObject...so now it has two members (data, meta). Now I'm trying to figure out how to get joTest["data"] into a DataTable. The handful of attempts I've made, keep giving me an error when it sees the "meta" member. Maybe I shouldn't be using a Data Table?
Also, in case it changes anything, I don't need the "links" from the "data" members.
I've tried searching for "Converting JObject into Data Table" But I'm not finding a lot of useful results.
public void PerformFeed()
{
string response;
response = Blah.SendMessage().Result;
JObject joTest = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<JObject>(response);
}
Json Data Structure
{
"data": [
{
"Val1": "1234",
"Val2": "foo1",
"Val3": "bar1",
"links": [
{
"rel": "self",
"uri": "/blah/1234"
},
{
"rel": "pricing_data",
"uri": "/blah/1234/pricing_data"
}
]
},
{
"Val1": "5678",
"Val2": "foo2",
"Val3": "bar2",
"links": [
{
"rel": "self",
"uri": "/blah/5678"
},
{
"rel": "pricing_data",
"uri": "/blah/5678/pricing_data"
}
]
}
],
"meta": {
"pagination": {
"total": 2,
"count": 2,
"per_page": 25,
"current_page": 1,
"total_pages": 1,
"links": []
}
}
}
UPDATE: I've figured out a "solution" but I really don't think it's a good solution. I built a datatable and then used a foreach statement on the JObject to populate the data table that way. It seems very inefficient...but for now it works. Hopefully I'll find a better way.
public void PerformFeed()
{
DataTable Items = new DataTable();
Items.Columns.Add("Val1");
Items.Columns.Add("Val2");
Items.Columns.Add("Val3");
string response = Blah.SendMessage().Result;
JObject Data = JObject.Parse(response);
foreach (JObject jo in Data["data"])
{
Items.Rows.Add(jo["Val1"], jo["Val2"], jo["Val3"]);
}
}

There is this really nice online utility that helps extracting C# classes from JSON objects. I think the problem here is with your JSON, you're missing a comma ",". You would easily be able to spot the error with some online JSON formatter / validator. Rest the deserialization is pretty straightforward. Try the following:
JObject obtainedObject = JObject.Parse(JsonString);
Following would be the structure of your obtained object:
public class RequiredClass
{
public IList<Datum> data { get; set; }
public Meta meta { get; set; }
}
public class Datum
{
public string Val1 { get; set; }
public string Val2 { get; set; }
public string Val3 { get; set; }
public IList<Link> links { get; set; }
}
public class Link
{
public string rel { get; set; }
public string uri { get; set; }
}
public class Pagination
{
public int total { get; set; }
public int count { get; set; }
public int per_page { get; set; }
public int current_page { get; set; }
public int total_pages { get; set; }
public IList<object> links { get; set; }
}
public class Meta
{
public Pagination pagination { get; set; }
}
Update:
Here's is how you extract your array and convert that to a DataTable:
JObject jObject = JObject.Parse(json);
JToken dataArray = jObject["data"];
DataTable dt = (DataTable) JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(dataArray.ToString(), (typeof(DataTable)));
To avoid the surplus casting, you can try the following using the class structure already mentioned above:
JObject jObject = JObject.Parse(json);
JToken dataArray = jObject["data"];
List<Datum> requiredList = new List<Datum>();
foreach (var item in dataArray)
{
Datum obj = new Datum();
obj.Val1 = (string) item["Val1"] ?? "";
obj.Val2 = (string) item["Val2"] ?? "";
obj.Val3 = (string) item["Val3"] ?? "";
obj.links = new List<Link>();
foreach(var subItem in item["links"])
{
Link lnk = new Link();
lnk.rel = (string) subItem["rel"] ?? "";
lnk.uri = (string) subItem["uri"] ?? "";
obj.links.Add(lnk);
}
requiredList.Add(obj);
}

Parsing JSON with JObject

I need to parse a JSON, I am already parsing the first part of the record but I am having a problem with a sub record. This is my code:
List<JToken> results = new List<JToken>();
List<JToken> results2 = new List<JToken>();
using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpResponse.GetResponseStream()))
{
result = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
results = JObject.Parse(result).SelectToken("record").ToList();
}
List<Record> users = new List<Record>();
foreach (JObject token in results)
{
Record user = new Record();
user.id = Int32.Parse(token["id"].ToString());
user.full_name = token["full_name"].ToString();
user.email = token["email"].ToString();
//role.RoleName = token.SelectToken("name").ToString();
}
That's working perfectly but I have issues parsin a string that's a bit deeper. This is the JSON:
{
"record": [
{
"id": 2,
"institution_id": 1,
"full_name": "",
"email": "",
"role_id": 2,
"created": "2015-01-13 01:18:52.370379",
"updated": "2015-01-22 23:58:44.103636",
"branch_id": 1,
"Branch_by_branch_id": {
"id": 1,
"institution_id": 1,
"branch_name": "Test Branch"
}
}
]
}
I want to get the "branch_name" inside Branch_by_branch_id. How can I access it with Jobject?

If your JSON is this
{
"record": [
{
"id": 26,
"full_name": "",
"email": "",
"branch_id": 1,
"Branch_by_branch_id": {
"id": 1,
"institution_id": 1,
"branch_name": "NAME"
}
}
]
}
Have classes like this:
public class BranchByBranchId
{
public int id { get; set; }
public int institution_id { get; set; }
public string branch_name { get; set; }
}
public class Record
{
public int id { get; set; }
public string full_name { get; set; }
public string email { get; set; }
public int branch_id { get; set; }
public BranchByBranchId Branch_by_branch_id { get; set; }
}
public class RootObject
{
public List<Record> record { get; set; }
}
Then parse it and retrieve the value like this.
var root = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<RootObject>(json);
var branchName = root[0].Branch_by_branch_id.branch_name;
I always prefer to access my JSON objects like this, because I like having my objects as native C# classes. The classes were generated by json2csharp.

How to get the values from list of objects in c#

I have Called a Json Web Service and got the result in c#.The Json Web service data is available in format:
{
"Count": 9862,
"Items": [
{
"Admin": {
"S": "false"
},
"UserId": {
"S": "e9633477-978e-4956-ab34-cc4b8bbe4adf"
},
"Age": {
"N": "76.24807963806055"
},
"Promoted": {
"S": "true"
},
"UserName": {
"S": "e9633477"
},
"Registered": {
"S": "true"
}
},
{
"Admin": {
"S": "false"
},
"UserId": {
"S": "acf3eff7-36d6-4c3f-81dd-76f3a8071bcf"
},
"Age": {
"N": "64.79224276370684"
},
"Promoted": {
"S": "true"
},
"UserName": {
"S": "acf3eff7"
},
"Registered": {
"S": "true"
}
},
I have got the Response like this in c#:
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://localhost:8000/userdetails");
try
{
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
using (Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream())
{
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream, Encoding.UTF8);
return reader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
after finally successfully get the response i have got all the Data in string. and then parse this string in list of objects .Now I have list of objects where it showing the count in debugging.Now I want to access the values like UserId:acf3eff7-36d6-4c3f-81dd-76f3a8071bcf like properties.I dont know how to do it.Please help me and any help will be appreciated.

You can use the following code to get the values from json as:
JObject obj = JObject.Parse(json);
int count = (int)obj["Count"];
var Items = obj["Items"];
foreach (var item in Items)
var admin = item["Admin"];

Quick and dirty way:
//deserialize your string json using json.net
dynamic jsonObj = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json);
//get value of UserId in first Item
var UserId = jsonObj["Items"][0]["UserId"]["S"];
//OR get the value of UserId for each Item in Items
//foreach(dynamic item in jsonObj["Items"])
//item["UserId"]["S"];
Advice is to use c# objects as mentioned by #yousuf

To be able to access Json property like common C# object property, you need to deserialize json string to strongly typed object (you can use, for example, JSON.NET to do deserialization).
Another handy tool is http://json2csharp.com/. Paste your Json there then you can generate classes definitions that suitable to map the Json automatically :
//RootObject class definition generated using json2csharp.com
//the rest of class definition removed for brevity.
public class RootObject
{
public int Count { get; set; }
public List<Item> Items { get; set; }
}
........
........
//in main method
var jsonString = .....;
//deserialize json to strongly-typed object
RootObject result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<RootObject>(jsonString);
foreach(var item in result.Items)
{
//then you can access Json property like common object property
Console.WriteLine(item.UserId.S);
}

you are deserializing string to c# object. you will need to create object that reperesents the json .
For example -
public class Admin
{
public string S { get; set; }
}
public class UserId
{
public string S { get; set; }
}
public class Age
{
public string N { get; set; }
}
public class Promoted
{
public string S { get; set; }
}
public class UserName
{
public string S { get; set; }
}
public class Registered
{
public string S { get; set; }
}
public class RootObject
{
public Admin Admin { get; set; }
public UserId UserId { get; set; }
public Age Age { get; set; }
public Promoted Promoted { get; set; }
public UserName UserName { get; set; }
public Registered Registered { get; set; }
}
Then deserialize json string to object using jsonSerializer
JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
var result =
(RootObject)serializer .DeserializeObject("Json String")

string json = #"{
""Name"": ""Apple"",
""Expiry"": new Date(1230422400000),
""Price"": 3.99,
""Sizes"": [
""Small"",
""Medium"",
""Large""
]
}";
JObject o = JObject.Parse(json);
//This will be "Apple"
string name = (string)o["Name"];