I have a string array of the form
"education_history":
[{"name":"xxxxxx",
"concentrations":[],
"school_type":"College"},
{"name":"xxxxxxx",
"concentrations":[],
"school_type":"College"}]
I want to deserialize the values name and school_type. I have already deserialized the values of single value types but I am facing problems with string arrays.One more problem is that in my request I have multiple arrays which I want to deserealize.
Thanks for the help
Like marcelo said, using a json parser is the way to go: http://json.codeplex.com/
You have to use diffrent type instead of string.
Byte array with fixed size or StringBuilder type should work.
String is variable-lenght, that is the reason of problems in deserialization.
Let's say you've below class :
public class EducationHistory
{
public string name { get; set; }
public string[] concentrations { get; set; }
public string school_type { get; set; }
}
As already suggested by @aL3891, download Json.Net
And do like below :
EducationHistory objVal = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<EducationHistory>(yourJsonString);
You can implement Ienumerable on above class to iterate through collection. Check out a question here, how it deserialize using Json.NET. I hope it helps!
I think my answer to Deserialization of a Facebook JSON string also applies for this question
Instead of declaring a lot of tiny classes I would go dynamic way. Here is the code for dynamic json object. And the usage would be something like this:
dynamic obj = JsonUtils.JsonObject.GetDynamicJsonObject(jsonString);
Console.WriteLine("{0} , {1}", obj.current_location.city, obj.current_location.state);
Console.WriteLine("EDUCATION");
foreach (var eduHist in obj.education_history)
{
Console.WriteLine("{0} , {1}", eduHist.name, eduHist.year);
}
Console.WriteLine("WORK");
foreach (var workHist in obj.work_history)
{
Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}-{2}", workHist.company_name, workHist.start_date, workHist.end_date);
}
{…}). Are you using a JSON parser? If not, you should.