I cannot figure out how to write a class for deserializing a list of objects from JSON in .Net.
From the JSON spec, we learn that this is valid JSON:
[
{
"precision": "zip",
"Latitude": 37.7668,
"Longitude": -122.3959,
"Address": "",
"City": "SAN FRANCISCO",
"State": "CA",
"Zip": "94107",
"Country": "US"
},
{
"precision": "zip",
"Latitude": 37.371991,
"Longitude": -122.026020,
"Address": "",
"City": "SUNNYVALE",
"State": "CA",
"Zip": "94085",
"Country": "US"
} ]
So I constructed this class to handle deserialization:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Web.Script.Serialization;
namespace JsonRfc{
[Serializable]
public class Location {
public string Precision;
public double Latitude;
public double Longitude;
public string Address;
public string City;
public string State;
public string Zip;
public string Country;
public Location(){}
public static Location DeserializedJson(string responseJson)
{
JavaScriptSerializer jsSerializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
return jsSerializer.Deserialize<Location>(responseJson);
}
}
[Serializable]
public class Locations {
public List<Location> Location;
public Locations(){}
public static Locations DeserializedJson(string responseJson)
{
JavaScriptSerializer jsSerializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
return jsSerializer.Deserialize<Locations>(responseJson);
}
}
}
The deserialized object is null despite having valid Json passed to the method.
Other things I tried that failed included: making Locations an array instead of a list (so: public Location[] Location; ), and deserializing to location even though the Json contains an array of locations.
So, how is a .Net developer expected to deserialize an array of objects? I expected the above to work and it does not.