Deserializing Json String which is stored in a string variable - json

Question

I am working in VS 2015 and c#.
I have a Json String which has a list of collections, each collection represents an object,
string wsjson =
"{
"customAttributes":
[{"description":"xxxxxxx","id":11,"value":"xxxxxxx"},{"description":"xxxxxxx","id":10,"value":"xxxxxxx"}],
"location":{"account":"xxxxxxx","cabinet":"xxxxxxx"},
"misc":{"approved":false,"archived":false,"deleted":false,"echo":true,"external":false,"favorite":false,"officialLocked":false,"signed":false},
"permissions":[{"xxxxxxx":true,"xxxxxxx":false,"edit":true,"noAccess":false,"share":true,"view":true}],
"standardAttributes":{"aclStatus":"xxxxxxx","created":"\/Date(xxxxxxx)\/","createdBy":"xxxxxxx","createdByGuid":"xxxxxxx","envId":"xxxxxxx","extension":"ndws","id":"xxxxxxx","modified":"\/Date(xxxxxxx)\/","modifiedBy":"xxxxxxx","modifiedByGuid":"xxxxxxx","name":"xxxxxxx","officialVer":1,"size":4,"syncMod":xxxxxxx,"url":"xxxxxxx","versions":1}}"
DataSet wsdataSet = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<DataSet>(wsjson);
I am getting an error. I tried to follow this (Deserializing Json String into multiple Object types) solution but I am getting error for this line as my jason data is in a string and no function to parse string.
var j = JArray.Parse(data);
Here is the visual image of the jason data.
Actual code block in my program is:
foreach (DataRow row in dataTable.Rows)
{
string wsjson = GetWorkspaceProfile(row[0].ToString());
DataSet wsdataSet = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<DataSet>(wsjson);
DataTable wsdataTable = wsdataSet.Tables["standardAttributes"];
foreach (DataRow wsrow in wsdataTable.Rows)
{
cmbWorkspaceByCabinet.Items.Add(new KeyValuePair<string, string>(row["envId"].ToString(), wsrow["name"].ToString()));
}
}
Where GetWorkspaceProfile is a string type return function which return me JSON data as string like the image above.
public string GetWorkspaceProfile(string WorkspaceId)
{
string responseStr = "";
string url = "v1/Workspace/" + WorkspaceId + "/info";
RestType type = RestType.GET;
Boolean useXml = false;
RestRequest rr = FormRequest(type, url, useXml);
IRestResponse response;
try
{
response = executeRequest(rr);
responseStr = response.Content;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
return null;
}
return responseStr;
}

Answer 1

JArray.Parse will not work, because you don't have a json array, it is an object. Also not the all values of that object are collections, for example location is also object, not a collection. You have some options to parse it
Parse root object into Dictionary
JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, string>>(wsjson)
then parse every value of the dictionary to array if value is array and to dictionary if value is object.
Create a C# class according to your json data and parse string directly into instance of that class
JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<JsonModel>(wsjson);
where JsonModel is the class you need to create.
You can use JArray and JToken to get the values you want using json path.