Parse HTTP JSON Response - C# [duplicate]

Question

I am working on an OAUTH2 login for a winforms applications.

I have to make a request to our with some credentials, and the server will respond with a token and json format.

What's the best approach to parse out the token value?

Here is the response format:

{
    "access_token":"asdfasdfasdfafbasegfnadfgasdfasdfasdf",
    "expires_in":3600,
    "token_type":"Bearer"
}

MotoSV · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-13 13:51:04Z

7

Create a class with those properties and use JSON.NET JsonConvert.SerializeObject method.

public class MyResponse
{
    [JsonProperty("access_token")]
    public string AccessToken { get; set; }
    [JsonProperty("expires_in")]
    public int ExpiresIn { get; set; }
    [JsonProperty("token_type")]
    public string TokenType { get; set; }
}

MyResponse response = new MyResponse();
// Fill in properties
string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(response);

answered Mar 13, 2015 at 13:51

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Patrick Hofman Over a year ago

You should deserialize, not serialize. A response is deserialized...

MotoSV Over a year ago

Thought he want to build a response...in that case if you have the JSON response, then replace JsonConvert.SerializeObject to JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<MyResponse>(jsonString).

MotoSV Over a year ago

@Mark...can you confirm...do you want to extract the access_token from a JSON response string?

adampolar · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-13 13:53:04Z

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For less code you could also use JSON.NET with the dynamic type like the following;

public void JValueParsingTest()
{
    var jsonString = @"{""Name"":""Rick"",""Company"":""West Wind"",
                        ""Entered"":""2012-03-16T00:03:33.245-10:00""}";

    dynamic json = JValue.Parse(jsonString);

    // values require casting
    string name = json.Name;
    string company = json.Company;
    DateTime entered = json.Entered;

    Assert.AreEqual(name, "Rick");
    Assert.AreEqual(company, "West Wind");            
}

Source:http://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2012/Aug/30/Using-JSONNET-for-dynamic-JSON-parsing

answered Mar 13, 2015 at 13:53

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Patrick Hofman Over a year ago

I would never use dynamic if I don't have to. You don't want compiler errors on runtime.

adampolar Over a year ago

I suppose it depends if he is adequately unit testing his work. There is no such thing as compiler errors at run-time, but i know you mean; you would like to benefit from compile time checking. Fair enough. I would recommend staying away from any interpreted languages!

Brian Over a year ago

I wanted to use the "dynamic" method, but part of my C# code is in a Xamarin environment on iOS. Apple doesn't allow dynamically generated code on iOS, so "dynamic" didn't work. Ended up creating the class and using JsonConvert to serialize/deserialize the oauth info as described by @MotoSV. Worked great. However, just to add a little more about how useful "dynamic" has been.... I have some server side code that I use to work with arbitrary JSON data coming in and a Mongo DB. We use "dynamic" all over the place there.

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