Creating JSON out of string

Question

I want to get JSON similar to this

{
"Name": "xxxxx",
"ApplicationId": "xxxxx",
"Features": [
  {
     "Name": "xxxxx",
     "Code": "xxxxx",
  }
 ]
}

and my code is so far is

var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(
       new {
            Name = name ,
            ApplicationId = applicationID ,
            Features = (new[]{feature_name , feature_code})
           }, Formatting.None);

I can not figure out the feature part, it won't get created as in the example. I read so many post, but did not find anything about inner objects.

Answer 1

You didn't give the features appropriate names, hence then variable names are used.

Use this instead:

new[] { new { Name = feature_name, Code = feature_code } }

Also, you have to supply a list of features, for example using LINQ.

features.Select(f => new { Name = f.feature_name, Code = f.feature_code })

Answer 2

Another way of doing this can be like:

var createJson = new {
    Name = "xxxxx",
    ApplicationId = "xxxxx",
    Features = new[] {
      new  { Name = "xxxxx", Code = "xxxxx" },
      new  { Name = "xxxxx", Code = "xxxxx" }
    }
};
var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(createjson, Formatting.Indented);