Question

I’m receiving JSON, that i need to Deserialize. I’m using JavaScriptSerializer to do so.
E.g. Objects

class Player
    {
        public string name{ set; get; }
        public float yPos { set; get; }
        public float xPos { set; get; }
    }

class Communication
    {
        public string id{ set; get; }
        public string message{ set; get; }
        public string status{ set; get; }
    }

E.g. JSONs:

var json1 = "[{\"name\":\"Master\",\"xPos\":\"34.67\",\"yPos\":\"85.36\"}, {\"name\":\"Puppet\",\"xPos\":\"19.56\",\"yPos\":\"75.19\"}]";

var json2 = "[{\"id\":\"5697862\",\"message\":\"Hello\",\"status\":\"85.36\"}, {\"id\":\"4698458\",\"message\":\"Hi\",\"status\":\"75.19\"}]";

Deserializer Method:

private static List<T> Deserialize<T>(string json)
        {
            var s = new System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer();
            List<T> obj = s.Deserialize<List<T>>(json);
            return obj;
        }

But here is the problem I have two different kind of JSON messages coming. So how do I figure out to what object I need to Deserialize?

Answer 1

Instead of deserializing to a specific class you can process the result dynamically

var js = new JavaScriptSerializer();
dynamic dynObj =  js.DeserializeObject(jsonN);
foreach (var obj in dynObj)
{
    if (obj.ContainsKey("name")) Console.WriteLine(obj["name"]);
    else Console.WriteLine(obj["message"]);
}