Trouble parsing Json into .net Object - json

Question

I've studied other questions like this and I'm not doing something right. My vb.net class is wrong or something. Should my class only try to represent from candidates on or what?
I need help with deserializing this json:
{
"spatialReference" : {
"wkid" : 2286
},
"candidates" : [
{
"address" : "100 MAIN ST",
"location" : {
"x" : 1144782.9490543604,
"y" : 81361.525678694248
},
"score" : 100,
"attributes" : {
}
},
{
"address" : "100 E MAIN ST",
"location" : {
"x" : 1120908.3257195801,
"y" : 169917.71846333146
},
"score" : 77,
"attributes" : {
}
}
]
}
I am using the following code to deserialize:
Public Shared Function Deserialise(Of T)(ByVal json As String) As T
Dim obj As T = Activator.CreateInstance(Of T)()
Using ms As MemoryStream = New MemoryStream(Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(json))
Dim serializer As DataContractJsonSerializer = New DataContractJsonSerializer(obj.GetType())
obj = serializer.ReadObject(ms)
Return obj
End Using
End Function
And my vb.net class looks like this:
<DataContract()> _
Public Class SearchResults
Private mCandidates() As candidate
<DataContract()> _
Public Class SpatialReference
Private mwkId As String
<DataMember()> _
Public Property wkid() As String
Get
Return mwkId
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
mwkId = value
End Set
End Property
End Class
<DataMember()> _
Public Property Candidates() As candidate()
Get
Return mCandidates
End Get
Set(ByVal value As candidate())
mCandidates = value
End Set
End Property
End Class
<DataContract()> _
Public Class candidate
Private mAddress As String
Private mLocation As Location
Private mScore As String
Private mAttr As String
<DataMember()> _
Public Property address() As String
Get
Return mAddress
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
mAddress = value
End Set
End Property
<DataMember()> _
Public Property location() As Location
Get
Return mLocation
End Get
Set(ByVal value As Location)
mLocation = value
End Set
End Property
<DataMember()> _
Public Property score() As String
Get
Return mScore
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
mScore = value
End Set
End Property
<DataMember()> _
Public Property attributes() As String
Get
Return mAttr
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
mAttr = value
End Set
End Property
End Class

Answer 1

I dont know .net but i can tell you it related to JAVA. You can relate this with .Net
When we need to serialize or deserialize our class objects to json or from json we need Gson,
In Java we generally import tha package Gson package create its object for example:-
Suppose i have a class User, whose object you wanna serialize. Now to do this
take the whole object covert it to JSON with some key name with the help of Gson
jsonObject.put("KEYFORTHISjsonObject", gson.toJson(userClassObject));
Now you have serialized it to JSON,
While deserializing it
just create ur User object. Get Json Object from Json file
JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(jsonFile.toString())
userObject2 = gson.fromJson(jsonObject.toString(), User.class);
so now userObject2 has all the values that you serialized earlier.
if you are not familiar with JAVA then Read about Gson for .net
or you can read this link as well http://james.newtonking.com/projects/json-net.aspx