Question

Can somebody help me with the proper way to deserialize json in this format:

[
    {person: {name: "James", age:26}},
    {person: {name: "Mary", age:36}},
    {person: {name: "Kofi", age:46}}
]

The code I’m using is below:

WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("url");
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();

string json;

using (var sr = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
{
    json = sr.ReadToEnd();
}

var serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();

var persons= serializer.Deserialize<List<response>>(json);

foreach (var item in persons)
{
    Console.Write("name:" + item.name + " and age: " + item.age);
}

The class I’m mapping to is below:

public class person
{
    public string name{get;set;}
    public int age{get; set;}
}

public class response
{
   public person person {get;set;}
}

I keep getting nulls and empty strings for the name and age properties when I run this code. I would appreciate it a lot if someone could help me out.

Answer 1

I had to make call item.person.name and item.person.age in the foreach loop and make sure all properties in the person class were of type string.