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Asked: 2026-06-13T02:31:24+00:00

I have service that will receive some data in ‘json’, i don’t know which

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I have service that will receive some data in ‘json’, i don’t know which data. However I have set of attributes that might be there.
the Json format is something like this and can’t be changed, names could be different:

{"Parent1":
     {"Child1":"Value1","Child2":"Value2"},
 "Parent2":
     {"Child1":"Value1","Child2":"Value2"},
 "Parent3":
     {"Child1":
          {"SubChild1":"Value1","SubChild2":"Value2"}}
}

I want to enumerate through all items to be able get key:value pairs.
Please note that hierarchy is important as several objects could have the same key but different parent.
Also please note that I don’t know keys, i need to get keys as well as values, so I can’t get a POCO object out of this straight away.

So the question basically is: how to get a collection that would implement some iterator through all the properties (with accessor to both key and value) and would support hierarchy.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can always deserialize the JSON input into some (untyped) DOM where you can traverse the tree which represents the JSON document. There are a couple of options: the JavaScriptSerializer class, which will deserialize that JSON into a Dictionary<string, object> (for arrays it would deserialize into an object[]). Or you can use a third-party library, such as JSON.NET, which you can deserialize arbitrary JSON into a JToken/JObject/JArray/JValue tree, and traverse it using the methods from those classes.

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