How to de-serialize a json object containing variable number of objects and get them as a key value collection in C#?

Question

How can I deserialize the following JSON object and get a collection of Dictionary where the key(string) should be the method name and the object the details in C#.

Answer 1

The page you linked to describes how to use DataContractJsonSerializer to deserialize JSON. You can use that serializer to deserialize your "methods" object as a Dictionary, provided you are using .Net 4.5 or later and also set DataContractJsonSerializerSettings.UseSimpleDictionaryFormat = true. Having done this, you can define the following classes:

public class Method
{
    public string title { get; set; }
    public string type { get; set; }
    public string password { get; set; }
    public string stepUp { get; set; }
}

public class Response
{
    public Dictionary methods { get; set; }
}

And parse them as follows:

        var settings = new DataContractJsonSerializerSettings { UseSimpleDictionaryFormat = true };
        var jsonSerializer = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(Response), settings);
        var jsonResponse = jsonSerializer.ReadObject(response.GetResponseStream()) as Response;

If you are using an earlier version of .Net, you may need to use a different serializer such as Json.NET, since, in earlier versions, DataContractJsonSerializer serializes dictionaries as key/value pair arrays.