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C#, JSON data and serialization
Written by Division by Zero   
Saturday, 27 February 2010 10:44

On a personal project I had to use JSON data in C#. The first quick and dirty way was to interpret it by string manipulation. Of course this is very buggy. That the JSON data contained a lot of complex objects didn't help much. What I wanted was a JSON data serializer. I could write my own, but as a lazy developer someone somewhere would have probably done that for me. After a quick search I found that the framework already had it: the JavaScriptSerializer (in the System.Web.Script.Serialization namespace, add the System.Web.Extensions assembly as a reference).

Now it had to meet my requirements. Because of the large amount of the data and my need for a small subset of it, I didn't want to work out a large class structure. XML serializers demand that the XML elements exist in you model, but did the JavaScriptSerializer demand the same? Luckily it didn't.

Here's an example. If your JSON data is something like {"name": "Division by Zero", "site" : "http://www.dib0.nl"} and you just need the name, do the following:

public class Person
{
public string Name;
}
JavaScriptSerializer scriptSerializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
Person p = scriptSerializer.Deserialize("{\"name\": \"Division by Zero\", \"site\" : \"http://www.dib0.nl\"}");

It works like a charm. Really easy to use an very handy.

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