JSON: How to parse the JSON string which contains "object":"page"

Question

We receive JSON data from Facebook Real Time subscription. The JSON itself contains property like "object":"page" and we need to access this property.

{
   "entry":[
  {
     "changes":[  ],
     "id":"1037501376337008",
     "time":1465883784
  }
   ],"object":"page"
}

We use dynamic object to parse the JSON but when we try to access the result.object, it is not allowed as object is the keyword in C#.

dynamic result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<dynamic>(jsonRealTimeNotification);
string objectType = result.object.ToString(); // This line does not build

We can replace the "object" by some text in the original JSON string and then parse but we are looking if there is a standard way to handle this

dbc · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-22 07:34:27Z

1

Use @object:

dynamic result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<dynamic>(jsonRealTimeNotification);
string objectType = [email protected]();

This is the same syntax as is used when specifying a regular verbatim identifier. From the C# Language Specification, § 2.4.2 Identifiers (C#):

The prefix "@" enables the use of keywords as identifiers, which is useful when interfacing with other programming languages. The character @ is not actually part of the identifier, so the identifier might be seen in other languages as a normal identifier, without the prefix. An identifier with an @ prefix is called a verbatim identifier.

Sample fiddle.

answered Jul 22, 2016 at 7:34

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