C# JSON data serialized and binded to DataGridView - json

Question

I have this data class for storing data parsed from JSON formatted web data (using Json.NET library):
[Serializable()]
public class MovieData
{
public string FilePath { get; set; }
public string OrigName { get; set; }
[JsonProperty(PropertyName = "id")]
public int Id { get; set; }
[JsonProperty(PropertyName = "year")]
public int Year { get; set; }
[JsonProperty(PropertyName = "genres")]
public string[] Genres { get; set; }
}
The next class is for to be able serialize collection of MovieData objects:
[Serializable()]
[XmlRoot("MovieCollection")]
public class MovieCollection
{
[XmlArray("Movies")]
[XmlArrayItem("Movie", typeof(Movie))]
public List<Movie> movies = new List<MovieData>();
}
Finally, I need to bind such a collection of MovieData to DataGridView (or single MovieData object to DataGridViewRow), like:
dgvMovies.DataSource = movieCollection.movies;
Is it possible to bind it without hard-setting of DataGridViewColumn collection before? Native data types are not problem, problem is string[] Genres array, which I need to format it in DataGridView in some way, like:
"genres[0] / genres[0] / ... genres[n]"
At this moment, while simply setting DataSource to collectin, this array is ignored (is not displayed anyway).

Answer 1

In MovieData class, you can add the following property :
public string GenresAsString
{
get { return String.Join("/", Genres); }
set { Genres = value.Split('/'); }
}
You will surely have to improve the setter to make it more resilient (triming, removing empty genres) if you plan to let the user modify this value.
Else you can remove the setter.