Question

I am currently working with json.net ! I know how to deserialize json data and how to map with our class. Now I am eager about some queries !

Suppose my jsonstrings is

"attributes":{
            "color":"Brown",
            "condition":"Used",
            "currency":"USD",
            "price":"10500",
            "price_display":"$10,500",
         }

and my attribute class ( in which i want to deserialize above string) is

Public class Attribute
{
        public string name{ get; set; }
        public string value{ get; set; }
}

Now I am using following code for deserialization.!

 JavaScriptSerializer ser = new JavaScriptSerializer();
 <classname> p = ser.Deserialize<classname>(jsonString);

And Obviously this code is not going to work for above jsonstring at all.

Now How can I bind these name value pair in one class ?? Is this possible ?

In future, attributes may b more than 10 but format will be same as name value pair

Answer 1

EDIT: I’m sorry, but somehow I interpreted your question as if you wanted to serialize, and not deserialize (but I’ll keep the original below anyway, as I think it’s good knowledge :)).

Try to deserialize your JSON string to Dictionary<string,string> instead of your Attribute. I have a hunch it might work. Then, you can adjust the rest of your code to use that dictionary or you can convert to collection of your Attribute instances.

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The original answer (related to serializing, which was the opposite of what you asked for) below.

I don’t think so, but if the intention is to use it on the client this way:

attributes["color"] // returns Brown
attributes["price"] // returns 10500

… then what you’re after is called “associative array”, as it’s equivalent to this:

attributes.color
attributes.price

… as it’s not really an array, but it’s an object (javascript provides these two ways to reference object properties; e.g. window.onload is the same as window["onload"])…

… and you can achieve this with the JavaScriptSerializer if you serialize Dictionary<string,string> to JSON string (in other words, change your Attribute class to KeyValuePair<string,string>, or otherwise create such dictionary differently.