What is the most effective way to parse JSON objects that are dynamically named?

Question

I\'m trying to parse a JSON response that includes something I\'m not quite familiar with, nor have I seen in the wild that often.

Inside one of the JSON ob

Answer 1

Newtonsoft.Json JsonConvert can parse it as a Dictionary provided with appropriate model classes:

public class Comment
{
    public int id { get; set; }
    public string text { get; set; }
}

public class Comments
{
    public List comments { get; set; }
}

public class RootObject
{
    public Dictionary bugs { get; set; }
}

That can be checked with:

var json = "{\r\n   \"bugs\" : {\r\n      \"12345\" : {\r\n         \"comments\" : [\r\n            {\r\n               \"id\" : 1,\r\n               \"text\" : \"Description 1\"\r\n            },\r\n            {\r\n               \"id\" : 2,\r\n               \"text\" : \"Description 2\"\r\n            }\r\n         ]\r\n      }\r\n   }\r\n}";

Console.WriteLine(json);

var obj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json);

Console.WriteLine(obj.bugs["12345"].comments.First().text);