Question

I have some json like this:

[{
    "id": "20148324",
    "teacher", "Mr Jones",
    "names": ["john", "bill", "ben"],
    "priority": 2
},
{ 
    "id": "56128324",
    "teacher", "Mrs Jones"
    "names": ["john", "bill", "ben"],
    "priority": 1
}]

I want to be able to first select the child which has a priority value of 1, then in that child i want to select the last name in the nested names array.

I can accomplish this in two steps but was wondering how i can do it with one linq statement.

This is what i have got so far but i only get one dictionary item added. How can i add all the names individually with the teacher name to the dictionary:

var things = response.Where(p => p["priority"].Value<int>() == 1)
                             .ToDictionary(m => m["teacher"].ToString(),
                                           m => m["names"].Children().ToString());

Answer 1

Eventually did it with this. Not convinced its the nicest way, but it works.

var data = response.Where(p => p["priority"].Value<int>() == 1)
                             .SelectMany(s=>s["names"])
                             .ToDictionary(m => m.Value<string>(),
                                           m => m.Parent.Parent.Parent["teacher"].ToString());