CODEWITHSUNDEEP
c#jsonparsing.net-3.5
juan
juan

Reputation: 81954

How can I navigate any JSON tree in c#?

I need to navigate a Json structure as I would navigate an XML using XmlDocument.

The structure is not known, and I need to iterate over the nodes to parse some data.

Is this possible?
I know I can use JavaScriptSerializer to deserialize it into a known type, but this is not the case as I can receive any valid json.

I'm using .NET 3.5 (SP1) and cannot upgrade to 4.0 at the moment.
I upgraded to .NET 4.0 to use dynamic types (which is awesomeness made code)

Upvotes: 7

Views: 8323

Answers (1)

Matías Fidemraizer
Matías Fidemraizer

Reputation: 64943

Read this article:

It explains you a way of parsing JSON to a dynamic object which has a dictionary inside.

So, iterating a dictionary would be nice with LINQ, wouldn't be?

--- OR IF YOU'RE IN .NET 3.5... --- ;)

Why don't you implement an extension method like "ToDictionary"?

You can receive JSON text, later parse with a regular expression and split properties and values into a dictionary, everything done with suggested extension method.

A sample of how it would work that:

IDictionary<string, object> deserializedJson = jsonText.ToDictionary();

Fits your needs?

--- EVEN YET ANOTHER TRY (now you've more options)! ---

Check this open source project on CodePlex:

It has LINQ-to-JSON so you can read and write JSON.

Upvotes: 3

Related Questions