Question

I have a JSON response (which I have no control over) similar to this:

{"response":{
  "a" : "value of a",
  "b" : "value of b",
  "c" : "value of c",
  ...
}}

Where:

• “a”, “b”, “c” are unknown names upfront.
• The number of items can vary.

All I need at the end is an array of strings for all the values. Keeping the names is a bonus (Dictionary?) but I need to browse values by the order in which they appear.

How would you achieve this using JSON.NET?

Answer 1

You can use the JObject class from the Newtonsoft.Json.Linq namespace to deserialize the object into a DOM-like structure:

public class StackOverflow_10608188
{
    public static void Test()
    {
        string json = @"{""response"":{
          ""a"" : ""value of a"",
          ""b"" : ""value of b"",
          ""c"" : ""value of c""
        }}";
        JObject jo = JObject.Parse(json);
        foreach (JProperty property in jo["response"].Children())
        {
            Console.WriteLine(property.Value);
        }
    }
}