Question

Im not sure this can be done, basically I’m struggling to map c# objects to a json feed.

the problem is the json text contains a object name that is actually a unique id meaning I cant simply use a single object for the mapping.

{
    "Persons": {
        "12345": {
            "surname": "smith", 
            "firstname":  "jim"
            "language": "en"
        },
       "99999": {
            "surname": "blog", 
            "firstname":  "joe"
            "language": "en"
        },
        "87534": {
            "surname": "bond", 
            "firstname":  "james"
            "language": "en"
        }
    }
}

the object structure I have is a class called Persons containing a IList property.

As you can see the object names are actually unique id’s, but could be the same type.
I dont have control over the json feed so I cant simply edit that end.

Is there anything I can do to fix this in json.net? maybe a attribute???

Answer 1

I’m not a JSON.NET user so I apologize if this doesn’t apply. Your JSON structure appears that it would better match a Dictionary<int, Person> collection where Person is defined:

public class Person
{
    public string surname { get; set; }
    public string firstname { get; set; }
    public string language { get; set; }
}

Hierarchical data structures typically don’t mesh well with List<T> collections.