I have some JSON coming from Last.fm like this:
{
"toptags":{
"@attr":{
"artist":"Whatever",
"album":"Whatever"
}
}
}
Is there a special way to setup RestSharp to get it to recognize the @attr? The @ (AT sign) is causing me problems because I can't create an identifier that will match this.
From looking at the RestSharp source it's possible to enable it to do data contract deserialization, this seems to require a change of the RestSharp source.
Search for //#define SIMPLE_JSON_DATACONTRACT
in SimpleJson.cs
Then you'll need to create the data contracts as well (see "@attr" below):
[DataContract]
public class SomeJson
{
[DataMember(Name = "toptags")]
public Tags TopTags { get; set; }
}
[DataContract]
public class Tags
{
[DataMember(Name = "@attr")]
public Attr Attr { get; set; }
}
[DataContract]
public class Attr
{
[DataMember(Name = "artist")]
public string Artist { get; set; }
[DataMember(Name = "album")]
public string Album { get; set; }
}
Didn't try it with RestSharp, but it works with this piece of code, RestSharp uses DataContractJsonSerializer, possibly you will have to set the
SimpleJson.CurrentJsonSerializerStrategy =
SimpleJson.DataContractJsonSerializerStrategy
My test:
var json = "{ \"toptags\":{ \"@attr\":{ \"artist\":\"Whatever\", \"album\":\"Whatever\" }}}";
var serializer = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(SomeJson));
var result = (SomeJson)serializer.ReadObject(
new MemoryStream(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(json)));