Question

I know this is not hard, but I’ve been staring at the JSON.Net documentation for a half hour and don’t see how it works. I’ve got it setup, but my initial attempts are failing and the documenation that I have looked at so far isn’t making it obvious (to me, at least) how to deserialize the array form response.data and then get at the individual fields of each record.

Also, I don’t need to use JSON.Net – it just seemed like a good choice. Any solution will do just fine.

{
    "request":{
        "Format":"json",
        "Target":"Affiliate",
        "Method":"findAll",
        "Service":"HasOffers",
        "Version":"2",
        "NetworkId":"directagents",
        "NetworkToken":"......"
    },
    "response":{
        "status":1,
        "data":{
            "2056":{
                "Affiliate":{
                    "id":"2056",
                    "company":
                    "123 Greetings 123 Greetings (CD186)",
                    "address1":"1 Change Address",
                    "address2":"",
                    "city":"City",
                    "region":"NY",
                    "country":"US",
                    "other":null,
                    "zipcode":"11111",
                    "phone":"-",
                    "fax":null,
                    "website":null,
                    "signup_ip":null,
                    "date_added":"2012-02-24 18:00:24",
                    "modified":-62169966000,
                    "ref_id":"CD186",
                    "status":"pending",
                    "wants_alerts":"1",
                    "account_manager_id":"20",
                    "payment_method":"check",
                    "payment_terms":"net 30",
                    "w9_filed":"0",
                    "referral_id":null,
                    "affiliate_tier_id":null,
                    "fraud_activity_score":null,
                    "fraud_activity_alert_threshold":null,
                    "fraud_activity_block_threshold":null,
                    "fraud_profile_alert_threshold":null,
                    "fraud_profile_block_threshold":null,
                    "scrub_offer_pixels":null,
                    "shared":"0"
                    }
                },
            "1606":{
                                   .......this is enough to see how its structured....

Answer 1

You could model that “array” as Dictionary<int, AffiliateHolder>. The classes for that JSON could look like this:

class Top
{
    public Request Request { get; set; }
    public Response Response { get; set; }
}

class Request
{
    public string Format { get;set; }
    // etc.
}

class Response
{
    public int Status { get; set; }
    public Dictionary<int, AffiliateHolder> Data { get; set; }
}

class AffiliateHolder
{
    public Affiliate Affiliate { get; set; }
}

class Affiliate
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    // etc.
}

var o = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Top>(myJSONString);