Question

I’m actually trying to parse a JSON request response from my PHP web service into a c# object.

I’ve found some code sample using json.net and then I made this code from my Wine class :

public Wine(string json)
    {
        JObject jObject = JObject.Parse(json);
        BottleName = (string)jObject["name"];
        Category = (string)jObject["category"];
        Prize50 = Double.Parse((string)jObject["prize_50"]);
        Prize75 = Double.Parse((string)jObject["prize_75"]);
        Prize150 = Double.Parse((string)jObject["prize_150"]);
        Prize300 = Double.Parse((string)jObject["prize_300"]);
    }

It’s work perfectly if a have only 1 response like

"{\"id\":\"2\",\"name\":\"Pinot noir\",\"loc_wine\":\"",\"category\":\"Red\",\"prize_50\":\"12.800000\",\"prize_75\":\"16.500000\",\"prize_150\":\"0.000000\",\"prize_300\":\"0.000000\"} "

But I hav trouble when I have another Json string in my json response and I wish know how can I deal with it?

And I have sometimes null fields, how can I ignore them?

Thank you for helping ! 🙂

P.S. If needed, this is how I send my datas from my PHP file :

      $req = "SELECT * 
      FROM  t_wine
      WHERE name= \"Pinot noir\""; // for test purpose


      $res = mysqli_query($connection, $req);
      while($data= mysqli_fetch_assoc($res)) {
          extract ($data);
          echo json_encode($data);

      }

Answer 1

If there is more than one row returned from the mysqli_fetch statement, then echoing the json response for each row without putting the response in an array will give you bad JSON. You’re response basically would look like this:

{..some data...}{...some data...}

So let’s take advantage of the array structure of JSON. Change your PHP code to output like an array

$res = mysqli_query($connection, $req);
echo "[";
while($data= mysqli_fetch_assoc($res)) {
    extract ($data);
    echo json_encode($data);
    echo ",";
}
echo "]";

That will give you something like this:

[{...some data...},{...some data...},]

Keep in mind, this is rough. You’ll need to trim that last comma before the end bracket. But that’s a valid JSON array.

You’ll also need to modify your C# to process the jObject as an array of objects instead of one object.