Question

I want to simply read some JSON data from a URL, then turn that into an collection of POCO classes, but I can’t seem to figure out what I’m doing wrong.

Here is a sample of the JSON data, as it is fetched from the URL:

[
{
"Name":"Together As One Run",
"Location":"Parkville, MO",
"ScheduledAt":"\/Date(1334984400000)\/",
"URL":"http://www.runningintheusa.com/Race/View.aspx?RaceID=36667"
},
{
"Name":"Lean Green Running Machine 5K Run/Walk and 1 Mile Run",
"Location":"Springfield, MO",
"ScheduledAt":"\/Date(1335589200000)\/",
"URL":"http://www.runningintheusa.com/Race/View.aspx?RaceID=53945"
},
{
"Name":"Festival of Miles",
"Location":"St. Louis, MO",
"ScheduledAt":"\/Date(1338440400000)\/",
"URL":"http://www.runningintheusa.com/Race/View.aspx?RaceID=53901"
},
{
"Name":"Miles Against Melanoma",
"Location":"Saint Charles, MO",
"ScheduledAt":"\/Date(1338613200000)\/",
"URL":"http://www.runningintheusa.com/Race/View.aspx?RaceID=53939"
}
]

I can get this data with WebClient just fine.

I’m setting up my JsonFX reader like this:

var json = new JsonReader(new DataReaderSettings(new PocoResolverStrategy()));

Here is my POCO class:

public class Race {
  public String Name { get; set; }
  public String Location { get; set; }
  public DateTime ScheduledAt { get; set; }
  public String URL { get; set; }
}

I have tried to deserialize JSON data in several ways, and nothing seems to work:

//reader is an instance of StreamReader
var content = reader.ReadToEnd();
//nope
//var output = json.Read<Race>(content);
//nope
//var output = json.Read<Race[]>(content);

This has got to be a simple thing to do, I just can’t find a solution. I spent about 30 mins. googling to no avail. Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

I’ve never used JsonFX but you can try Json.Net or built-in JavaScriptSerializer. Both work without any problem.

 var jObj1 = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Race[]>(jsonstr);
 var jobj2 = new JavaScriptSerializer().Deserialize<Race[]>(jsonstr);