C# JSON String Deserialization

Question

I am really struggling to find any examples of JSON Deserialization in C# where the first property in each JSON item is a different ID.

    {
       \"121120         


        

Answer 1

Using System.Web, I have a little method that seems to make its way into every project that uses JSON for data storage:

private T UnpackJson(object data)
{
    var serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
    string rawJSON = serializer.Serialize(data);

    var result = serializer.Deserialize(rawJSON);
    return result;
}

...Where T is some type with elements that match the schema that you are deserializing. For your blob that is given in the top, I'd suggest something like:

// Using my above method...
var x = UnpackJson(blob);

public class Foo
{
    public string ID;
    public Bar SubItem;
}

public class Bar
{
    public int Topic_ID;
    public int Subject_ID;
    public string subject; 
}

...Note that your variables names should totally match the names of attributes in the JSON blob! I certainly hope this works (note that while I use the method and know for certain that it will deserialize a blob to a class, this implementation is untested.)