Question

I have jquery looping through a html table and putting it into an object then using JSON.stringify to convert that javascript object to json , see json below

{
"0":{"name":"fdgd","surname":"ssdt"},
"1":{"name":"fdsf","surname":"vn"},
"2":{"name":"dfsb","surname":"mry"},
"3":{"name":"hsdsdfry","surname":"smh"}
}

My issue is with JSON.net and the CLASSs im am trying to match up for it to convert the json into my tableT object

After it does the Jsonconvert I get empty objects, can you please tell me what is wrong with my classs. Im using vb.net and .net 2. So I guess my question is how do I match my tableT class up to my json string? Thank you for the help.

Dim tableOBJ As tableT = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(Of tableT)(myJSON)


Public Class tableT

    Private _allRows As List(Of Rows)

    Property AllRows As List(Of Rows)
        Get
            Return _allRows
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As List(Of Rows))
            _allRows = value
        End Set
    End Property

End Class

Public Class Rows

    Private _name As String
    Private _surname As String

    Property name As String
        Get
            Return _name
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As String)
            _name = value
        End Set
    End Property

    Property surname As String
        Get
            Return _surname
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As String)
            _surname = value
        End Set
    End Property

End Class

Answer 1

Without testing it, it appears that

JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(Of tableT)(myJSON)

should really be something more like

JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(Of List(Of Rows))(myJSON)

since there isn’t any way for JsonConvert to know that you want the rows in the AllRows object.

So, your code would look more like:

Dim tableOBJ As New tableT 
tableOBJ.AllRows = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(Of List(Of Rows))(myJSON)

** EDIT **

After testing this, I was only able to get this to work by modifying the Json string to look more like what I understand a Json array should look like.

Specifically, if I changed the array to look like:

{"AllRows": [
{"name":"fdgd","surname":"ssdt"},
{"name":"fdsf","surname":"vn"},
{"name":"dfsb","surname":"mry"},
{"name":"hsdsdfry","surname":"smh"}
]}

Then your original code works correctly.

What your original Json is doing is expecting that there are properties in the class called 0, 1, 2, and 3 of type Rows, which is not possible with VB and is, I am certain, not what you are looking to accomplish.

You can verify this by adding properties for Zero, One, Two, and Three of type Rows to your tableT:

Public Class tableT

    Public Zero As New Rows
    Public One As New Rows
    Public Two As New Rows
    Public Three As New Rows

changing your json to:

{
"Zero":{"name":"fdgd","surname":"ssdt"},
"One":{"name":"fdsf","surname":"vn"},
"Two":{"name":"dfsb","surname":"mry"},
"Three":{"name":"hsdsdfry","surname":"smh"}
}

and deserializing using your original class. You will see then that the new properties are populated with the contents of your json string.