Facebook has a new Batch request Graph API that I’m trying to consume.
The JSON looks something like this:
[
{
"code": 200,
"headers": [
{
"name": "Cache-Control",
"value": "private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
},
{
"name": "Connection",
"value": "close"
},
{
"name": "Content-Type",
"value": "text/javascript; charset=UTF-8"
},
{
"name": "ETag",
"value": "\"abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234\""
},
{
"name": "Expires",
"value": "Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT"
},
{
"name": "P3P",
"value": "CP=\"Facebook does not have a P3P policy. Learn why here: http://fb.me/p3p\""
},
{
"name": "Pragma",
"value": "no-cache"
},
{
"name": "Set-Cookie",
"value": "datr=abcd1234; expires=Sat, 01-Jun-2013 21:17:30 GMT; path=/; domain=.facebook.com; httponly"
}
],
"body": "{\n \"data\": [\n {\n \"id\": \"526075017\",\n \"name\": \"Jake Maldonado\"\n }\n ]\n}"
},
{
"code": 200,
"headers": [
{
"name": "Cache-Control",
"value": "private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
},
{
"name": "Connection",
"value": "close"
},
{
"name": "Content-Type",
"value": "text/javascript; charset=UTF-8"
},
{
"name": "ETag",
"value": "\"abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234\""
},
{
"name": "Expires",
"value": "Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT"
},
{
"name": "P3P",
"value": "CP=\"Facebook does not have a P3P policy. Learn why here: http://fb.me/p3p\""
},
{
"name": "Pragma",
"value": "no-cache"
},
{
"name": "Set-Cookie",
"value": "datr=abcd1234; expires=Sat, 01-Jun-2013 21:17:31 GMT; path=/; domain=.facebook.com; httponly"
}
],
"body": "{\n \"data\": [\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15648\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"David Sicko Nichols\",\n \"id\": \"100002260015742\"\n },\n \"message\": \"thas tha song fer my gunner...\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:06:29+0000\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15649\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"Hannah Sellers\",\n \"id\": \"100000688811712\"\n },\n \"message\": \"Does that mean they have found places to CUT that won't hurt the people even more?\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:06:30+0000\",\n \"likes\": 1\n },\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15650\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"Erin Dunn\",\n \"id\": \"1571162232\"\n },\n \"message\": \"Not just reduced, but ELIMIATED, along with all functions performed by the federal government which are not constitutional.\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:06:52+0000\",\n \"likes\": 1\n },\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15651\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"Aaron Yox\",\n \"id\": \"841285531\"\n },\n \"message\": \"i wonder if government knew that barowing money from the us people was ruled unconstitutional ?\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:06:57+0000\",\n \"likes\": 1\n },\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15652\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"David Osmalov\",\n \"id\": \"1025396466\"\n },\n \"message\": \"Finally, a post that everyone can agree with!\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:07:03+0000\",\n \"likes\": 1\n },\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15653\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"Robert Whitelock\",\n \"id\": \"1475652870\"\n },\n \"message\": \"Aaa... ya, Da!!\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:07:18+0000\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15655\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"Michael Reece\",\n \"id\": \"503494877\"\n },\n \"message\": \"yeah but.. well we all know they won't actually do that..\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:07:31+0000\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15654\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"Craig Farmer\",\n \"id\": \"510326379\"\n },\n \"message\": \"Is this not a very obvious suggestion? We all know the Government needs to reform, but they don't want to because one of their buddies has money tied up in the program. Its all about money and some 'person' keeping his/her job\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:07:31+0000\",\n \"likes\": 2\n },\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15657\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"Barby Parker\",\n \"id\": \"100001832287011\"\n },\n \"message\": \"It's about frikken time...let's get some serious work done Government Accountability Office!!!!\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:08:08+0000\",\n \"likes\": 1\n },\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15662\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"John Craig\",\n \"id\": \"100000471480073\"\n },\n \"message\": \"they will come up with an efficiency board. to help with efficiency. LOL!!!!!!\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:09:12+0000\",\n \"likes\": 4\n },\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15663\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"Michael Reece\",\n \"id\": \"503494877\"\n },\n \"message\": \"let's just say that the post speaks for itself.. there had to be a government accountability office to point that out... and we'll just see how well that's taken.. can we all just agree that if they ACTUALLY cared about this, that it would have already been done? I mean, I cut people off the clock when labor gets high, so... what the hell have these people been doing? besides STEALING billions and trillions of dollars that you and I worked for? I don't know about you guys, but I hate it when people steal from my wallet and nobody does anything about it.\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:09:47+0000\",\n \"likes\": 3\n },\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15665\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"Jennifer Johnson\",\n \"id\": \"1240748655\"\n },\n \"message\": \"Understatement... Queue 38 strategic VA initiatives related to claims processing.\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:10:14+0000\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15666\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"Michael Huffman\",\n \"id\": \"1346033926\"\n },\n \"message\": \"Increase inneficiency bro. You're going about this the wrong way.\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:10:21+0000\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15668\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"Zachary Tanner\",\n \"id\": \"1418226102\"\n },\n \"message\": \"Eliminate the DEA. All we need is the ATF\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:11:49+0000\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15669\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"Sean Brontosaurus Merz\",\n \"id\": \"1416480759\"\n },\n \"message\": \"\\\"Like\\\" if you want to decrease government inefficiency? THat's like saying \\\"Like\\\" if you think Hitler was a bad guy...The issue isn't whether or not you want to decrease government inefficiency. The issue is whether or not you can do that without hurting innocent people...Just saying.\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:13:16+0000\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15670\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"Judy Zandt\",\n \"id\": \"1071496566\"\n },\n \"message\": \"How about cutting the free rent for drug dealers? I had one living across the street for a while, and I just watched property values drop while they lived there. I do not appreciate being forced to support this type of person.\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:13:46+0000\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15671\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"David Enders\",\n \"id\": \"100000835155777\"\n },\n \"message\": \"Ok good start,next Homeland security.\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:13:48+0000\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15672\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"Thomas Elliott\",\n \"id\": \"1105406132\"\n },\n \"message\": \"Why do we need the BATF ??\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:13:49+0000\"\n },\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15674\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"Lori Shoenberger\",\n \"id\": \"100002093863834\"\n },\n \"message\": \"End Dept of Energy and Education\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:15:14+0000\",\n \"likes\": 1\n },\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15675\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"Anthony Burton\",\n \"id\": \"100000815275960\"\n },\n \"message\": \"LIKE this comment if you think inefficiency in the government should be ELIMINATED.\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:15:54+0000\",\n \"likes\": 6\n },\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15676\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"Tracy Barber\",\n \"id\": \"1314090738\"\n },\n \"message\": \"Not to take people's jobs, but there is too much overlap. Reduction in the TAX process would be a plus, although that is a major industry for some people.\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:17:30+0000\",\n \"likes\": 1\n },\n {\n \"id\": \"107171896014674_102291113198394_15683\",\n \"from\": {\n \"name\": \"Veronica Mason\",\n \"id\": \"100000928641657\"\n },\n \"message\": \"Good luck with that.\",\n \"created_time\": \"2011-06-02T21:25:48+0000\"\n }\n ]\n}" }
]
As you can see, the body is all that is really important, and the body is a fully escaped JSON string. In C#, is there any good ways to consume this fully escaped JSON string?
This is an example from Facebook (pulling the people who like and the comments from a post. The post that had the most comments on my feed was something political, so sorry for the ignorance in the data…) and as you can see, Unicode chars are converted to \\u0031esque, quote marks look like \\\", new-lines look like \\n, etc.
There are also escaped escaped chars, for example one of the comments in the body has \\\\" because it is the escaped escaped char (if that makes sense).
If those can be converted to their unescaped formate for normal JSON parsing, that would be the best.
Thank you!
Use Newtonsoft.Json. The library is really good for parsing and generating JSON.
http://json.codeplex.com/