JSON mapping to C# class

Question

I have a piece of JSON like this:

{
"Site 1": [
    {
        "Stuff": [
            "detergent",
            "det1"
        ],
        "productLine": "Hay",
        "revenue": {
            "1": 3123,
            "2": 123123,
            "3": 123123
        }
    },
    {
        "Stuff": [
            "detergent",
            "det2"
        ],
        "productLine": "Machine",
        "revenue": {
            "1": 343123,
            "2": 1231321323,
            "3": 321
        }
    }
],
"Site 2": [
    {
        "Stuff": [
            "detergent",
            "det1"
        ],
        "productLine": "Hay",
        "revenue": {
            "1": 111,
            "2": 123123,
            "3": 3213
        }
    },
    {
        "Stuff": [
            "detergent",
            "det2"
        ],
        "productLine": "Machine",
        "revenue": {
            "1": 11123,
            "2": 3255,
            "3": 6575
        }
    }
]
}

I want to map this to C# class but my problem is the names Site1 and site2 are what I would think should be a class name? Is there a way to represent this as a C# object?

Answer 1

Your root object is actually a Dictionary<string, List<YourClass>> and YourClass will look like this:

public class YourClass
{
    public string[] Stuff { get; set; }
    public string productLine { get; set; }
    public Dictionary<string, int> revenue { get; set; }
}

Now you can deserialize your json like this:

var dic = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, List<YourClass>>>("Your json string goes here...");

Answer 2

On your c# classes that map the same object graph as the json you can add attributes to the Class and properties to map the json exactly, eg for lowercase json properties etc.

see: http://www.newtonsoft.com/json/help/html/SerializationAttributes.htm