Deserializing JSON to .NET object using Newtonsoft (or LINQ to JSON maybe?)

Question

I know there are a few posts about Newtonsoft so hopefully this isn\'t exactly a repeat...I\'m trying to convert JSON data returned by Kazaa\'s API into a nice object of som

Answer 1

Fairly late to this party, but I came across this issue myself today at work. Here is how I solved the issue.

I was accessing a 3rd party API to retrieve a list of books. The object returned a massive JSON object containing roughly 20+ fields, of which I only needed the ID as a List string object. I used linq on the dynamic object to retrieve the specific field I needed and then inserted it into my List string object.

dynamic content = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(requestContent);
var contentCodes = ((IEnumerable)content).Where(p => p._id != null).Select(p=>p._id).ToList();

List codes = new List();

foreach (var code in contentCodes)
{
    codes.Add(code?.ToString());
}