Deserialize json object into dynamic object using Json.net

Question

Is it possible to return a dynamic object from a json deserialization using json.net? I would like to do something like this:

dynamic jsonResponse = JsonConv         


        

Answer 1

If you just deserialize to dynamic you will get a JObject back. You can get what you want by using an ExpandoObject.

var converter = new ExpandoObjectConverter();    
dynamic message = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<ExpandoObject>(jsonString, converter);

Answer 2

Json.NET allows us to do this:

dynamic d = JObject.Parse("{number:1000, str:'string', array: [1,2,3,4,5,6]}");

Console.WriteLine(d.number);
Console.WriteLine(d.str);
Console.WriteLine(d.array.Count);

Output:

 1000
 string
 6

Documentation here: LINQ to JSON with Json.NET

See also JObject.Parse and JArray.Parse