C# Parsing JSON array of objects

Question

I have an array of objects like this in json format:

{"results":[{"SwiftCode":"","City":"","BankName":"Deutsche Bank","Bankkey":"10020030","Bankcountry":"DE"},{"SwiftCode":"","City":"10891 Berlin","BankName":"Commerzbank Berlin (West)","Bankkey":"10040000","Bankcountry":"DE"}]}

What I want to get is a object[] in C#, where one object contains all the data what is in one json object. The thing is, I can NOT make a class with the properties of this object like here:

public class Result
{
    public int SwiftCode { get; set; }
    public string City { get; set; }
    //      .
    //      .
    public string Bankcountry { get; set; }
}

Because I get everytime different results back, but I know it's always an array of objects. Someone knows how I could manage to get an array of objects back?

EDIT

I have to pass this object to powershell via WriteObject(results). So the ouput should only be the object IN the array.

Answer 1

Though this is an old question, I thought I'd post my answer anyway, if that helps someone in future

 JArray array = JArray.Parse(jsonString);
 foreach (JObject obj in array.Children<JObject>())
 {
     foreach (JProperty singleProp in obj.Properties())
     {
         string name = singleProp.Name;
         string value = singleProp.Value.ToString();
         //Do something with name and value
         //System.Windows.MessageBox.Show("name is "+name+" and value is "+value);
      }
 }

This solution uses Newtonsoft library, don't forget to include using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;

Answer 2

string jsonData1=@"[{""name"":""0"",""price"":""40"",""count"":""1"",""productId"":""4"",""catid"":""4"",""productTotal"":""40"",""orderstatus"":""0"",""orderkey"":""123456789""}]";

                  string jsonData = jsonData1.Replace("\"", "");


                  DataSet ds = new DataSet();
                  DataTable dt = new DataTable();
       JArray array= JArray.Parse(jsonData);

couldnot parse , if the vaule is a string..

look at name : meals , if name : 1 then it will parse

Answer 3

Use NewtonSoft JSON.Net library.

dynamic obj = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(jsonString);

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

I have just got an solution a little bit easier do get an list out of an JSON object. Hope this can help.

I got an JSON like this:

{"Accounts":"[{\"bank\":\"Itau\",\"account\":\"456\",\"agency\":\"0444\",\"digit\":\"5\"}]"}

And made some types like this

    public class FinancialData
{
    public string Accounts { get; set; } // this will store the JSON string
    public List<Accounts> AccountsList { get; set; } // this will be the actually list. 
}

    public class Accounts
{
    public string bank { get; set; }
    public string account { get; set; }
    public string agency { get; set; }
    public string digit { get; set; }

}

and the "magic" part

 Models.FinancialData financialData = (Models.FinancialData)JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(myJSON,typeof(Models.FinancialData));
        var accounts = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(financialData.Accounts) as JArray;

        foreach (var account in  accounts)
        {
            if (financialData.AccountsList == null)
            {
                financialData.AccountsList = new List<Models.Accounts>();
            }

            financialData.AccountsList.Add(JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Models.Accounts>(account.ToString()));
        }

Answer 5

Use newtonsoft like so:

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        string json = "{'results':[{'SwiftCode':'','City':'','BankName':'Deutsche    Bank','Bankkey':'10020030','Bankcountry':'DE'},{'SwiftCode':'','City':'10891    Berlin','BankName':'Commerzbank Berlin (West)','Bankkey':'10040000','Bankcountry':'DE'}]}";

        var resultObjects = AllChildren(JObject.Parse(json))
            .First(c => c.Type == JTokenType.Array && c.Path.Contains("results"))
            .Children<JObject>();

        foreach (JObject result in resultObjects) {
            foreach (JProperty property in result.Properties()) {
                // do something with the property belonging to result
            }
        }
    }

    // recursively yield all children of json
    private static IEnumerable<JToken> AllChildren(JToken json)
    {
        foreach (var c in json.Children()) {
            yield return c;
            foreach (var cc in AllChildren(c)) {
                yield return cc;
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 6

I believe this is much simpler;

dynamic obj = JObject.Parse(jsonString);
string results  = obj.results;
foreach(string result in result.Split('))
{
//Todo
}