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crystyxn
crystyxn

Reputation: 1601

Serialize JSON property name with comma in its name?

I am trying to retrieve JSON data from an API, but one of the property names comes as @data.context . It is not a nested property. I've tested it with ExpandoObject as well, it is exactly like that. Normally in C # I would make a data model like

public class Data
{
  public string @odata.context { get ; set; }
}

But this doesn't work, as C# doesn't let me have a comma in the variable name, nor have quotes around it. The @ sign is already there

The JSON is as follows: this property that contains a link and then another one that contains a list of objects.

{
 "@odata.context": "some link here",
  "list" [ {}, {}
 ]
}

The list of objects do not give me any trouble, only the first property.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 400

Answers (2)

JMP
JMP

Reputation: 1934

You can use JsonPropertyName attribute to map the json to the property e.g:

[JsonPropertyName("@odata.context")] 
public string DataContext { get ; set; }

Microsoft docs

Upvotes: 3

Alen Smith
Alen Smith

Reputation: 1512

You might be consuming a poorly designed API. There are API specifications that tells how to structure and name JSON keys. One way you can accomplish is

1 Fetch JSON response from API

2 Replace "@data.context" with "Context" or something similar in JSON string

3 Create class with property

public class Data
{
  public string Context { get ; set; }
}

4 Deserialise it

Upvotes: 2

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