Json.Net Resolving Property Names Properly

Question

I am getting some data that looks like below JSON from an API

{
    body_html: \"
Test
\",
    id: \"cu1bpkz\",
    link_id: \"d3_3kkgis\",
           


        

Answer 1

You can try this. you can use JsonPropertyAttribute to tell Json.Net what the property's corresponding json field is.

public class Comment
{
    [JsonProperty("author_flair_text")]
    public string AuthorFlairText { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("author_flair_css_class")]
    public string AuthorFlairCssClass { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("author")]
    public string Author { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("link_id")]
    public string LinkId { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("id")]
    public string Id { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("body_html")]
    public string BodyHtml { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("url")]
    public string Url { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("subreddit_id")]
    public string SubredditId { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("subreddit")]
    public string Subreddit { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("created_utc")]
    public long CreatedUtc { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("body")]
    public string Body { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("parent_id")]
    public string ParentId { get; set; }
}

Everything else has been taken care only URL is the property which I cannot find in the JSON. Please have a look else the code is ready to get copy paste and run.

you could store an object of type JsonModel and in your model's constructor initialize it using JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>. Your public properties could then just call into that JsonModel instance and get the appropriate values.

Answer 2

Use the JsonPropertyAttribute like so:

[JsonProperty("author_flair_text")]
public string AuthorFlairText { get; set; }

This ensures it'll take the right name, different from the property in code.

Edit: You can also use this tool for larger json files, it generates classes for your data: http://json2csharp.com/