Question

I have a simple object that is deserialized from JSON into a server-side object.

JSON:

{    name             : 'ObjectName',    host             : 'http://localhost',    ImagesPath       : '/Images/' } 

On the server side, the above JSON code gets deserialized into this C# object via System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer:

public class InfoObject {     public string Name { get; set; }     public string Host { get; set; }     public string ImagesPath { get; set; } } 

Currently the above works fine, but I was thinking of adding a lot of properties to it. I want to add sub-objects to hold the extra data so that all the properties are not all in one long class.

Sub-object object:

public class TestSubObject {      public string TestString { get; set; } } 

So that the new C# object looks like:

public class InfoObject {     public string Name { get; set; }     public string Host { get; set; }     public string ImagesPath { get; set; }     public TestSubObject MoreInformation {get;set;} } 

But the problem is that I don’t know how to represent the initialization of a sub-object property in JSON. Maybe I missed something obvious, but google searches did not immediately yield an answer.

I tried:

{     name             : 'ObjectName',     host             : 'http://localhost',     ImagesPath       : '/Images/',     MoreInformation.TestString : 'hello world' } 

But no dice, so how do I correctly write the above in JSON?

Answer 1

You can write it like this:

{     Name             : 'ObjectName',     Host             : 'http://localhost',     ImagesPath       : '/Images/',     MoreInformation  : {TestString : 'hello world'} };  // And to access the nested object property: obj.MoreInformation.TestString