Error while using Newtonsoft.Json to parse a Json string - json

Question

My JSON string looks like this. Please note that it has escape characters.
string json = "\"{\\\"Status\\\":true,\\\"ID\\\":24501}\"";
When I use the Parse method like below I run into an error stated below:
JObject o = JObject.Parse(json);
Error reading JObject from JsonReader. Current JsonReader item is not an object: String
How do I get rid of this error or is there any other method to parse my json string and fetch the values?

Answer 1

Remove first and last quotes:
string json = "{\"Status\":true,\"ID\":24501}";
See the Json format here.

Answer 2

It seems like your object is double encoded. Try:
string json = "{\"Status\":true,\"ID\":24501}";

Answer 3

You need something like this
json = json.Replace(#"\", string.Empty).Trim(new char[]{'\"'})

Answer 4

in here format should be something like this:
string jsonNew = #"{'Status': True,'ID': 24501 }";

Answer 5

As SolarBear says in his comment, the problem is double-escaping.
To get the proper format, like this:
string json = "{\"Status\":true,\"ID\":24501}";
Do something like this:
json = json.Replace("\\\\", "\\");

Answer 6

Had similar issue today. My solution to this is contained in this extension method (using c#):
public static class StringExtensions
{
public static string RemoveDoubleEncoding(this string text)
{
if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(text))
return string.Empty;
var result = text.TrimStart('\"').TrimEnd('\"');
result = result.Replace(#"\", string.Empty);
return result;
}
}