Question

I’m looking for advice on the best way to represent this JSON object in C#.

To be clear, I’m not trying to convert from an existing JSON string to C# object – this is from scratch. I can visualize what I’m trying to create as JSON, but not sure how that translates…

[
{
   "EquipmentID": "ASD2F",
   "ConnectionIDs":[
      { "ConnectionID": "HD4GH" },
      { "ConnectionID": "KAFD3" },
      { "ConnectionID": "NA3AF" }
   ]
},
{
   "EquipmentID": "GAE31",
   "ConnectionIDs":[
      { "ConnectionID": "HJA03" },
      { "ConnectionID": "FGVA1" },
      { "ConnectionID": "GHAD8" }
   ]
}
]

That’s basically an array of EquipmentID’s, each EquipmentID containing an array of ConnectionID’s. I’ve been tinkering with a few different Classes containing arrays, lists, etc… but I can’t seem to settle on anything. I know this should be incredibly simple, so thanks in advance for helping out!

Answer 1

Something like this makes sense:

class Equipment {
    public string Id { get; set; }
    public List<string> ConnectionIds { get; set; }
}

Then you’d have a variable of type List<Equipment> to hold the equipments.

By the way, it’s not clear to me whether ConnectionIds themselves are equipments or not. If they are, you’d basically have:

class Equipment {
    public string Id { get; set; }
    public List<Equipment> Connections { get; set; }
}