Creating a JSON array in C#

Question

Ok, so I am trying to send POST commands over an http connection, and using JSON formatting to do so. I am writing the program to do this in C#, and was wondering how I would f

Answer 1

You'd better create some class for each item instead of using anonymous objects. And in object you're serializing you should have array of those items. E.g.:

public class Item
{
    public string name { get; set; }
    public string index { get; set; }
    public string optional { get; set; }
}

public class RootObject
{
    public List items { get; set; }
}

Usage:

var objectToSerialize = new RootObject();
objectToSerialize.items = new List 
                          {
                             new Item { name = "test1", index = "index1" },
                             new Item { name = "test2", index = "index2" }
                          };

And in the result you won't have to change things several times if you need to change data-structure.

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