Deserialize JSON string - list/array

Question

   {
       "id":"123", "result":
       {
           "0": { "children_id": "0", "name": "some name" },
           "1": { "children_id": "1", "name": "some other name" }
        }
    }

I have this pice of JSON string, how i can deserialize it using: JSON.NET http://json.codeplex.com ?

I was trying make some class which can hold my json object, but i i don't know how i can hold this "0" and "1".

public class Data
{
    public string children_id  { get; set; }
    public string name { get; set; }
}

public class RootObject
{
    public string id { get; set; }
    public List<Data> result { get; set; }
}

Answer 1

This JSON looks badly designed. If you can have multiple children, it should be an array, such as:

{
   "id":"123", "result":
   [
       { "children_id": "0", "name": "some name" },
       { "children_id": "1", "name": "some other name" }
   ]
}

If you have control over the JSON generation, change that (your current C# code would work in deserialization). If you don't, you are better off deserializing that to a dictionary, which would make your RootObject look like this:

public class RootObject
{
    public string id { get; set; }
    public Dictionary<int, Data> result { get; set; }
}

Answer 2

public class Data
{
    public string id { get; set; }
    public string name { get; set; }
}

public class RootObject
{
    public string id { get; set; }
    public Dictionary<string, Data> result { get; set; }
}

Answer 3

JObject jObject = new JObject();
/* jObject = {
   "id":"123", "result":
   {
       "0": { "children_id": "0", "name": "some name" },
       "1": { "children_id": "1", "name": "some other name" }
    }
}
*/
foreach(var g in jObject["result"]){
   switch(g.Key()){
     case 0://do something
            break;
   }
}