building on an answer from another posting.. I've come up with a more generic way to build out a list, utilizing dynamic retrieval with Json.NET version 12.x
using Newtonsoft.Json;
static class JsonObj
{
/// <summary>
/// Deserializes a json file into an object list
/// Author: Joseph Poirier 2/26/2019
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
/// <param name="fileName"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static List<T> DeSerializeObject<T>(string fileName)
{
List<T> objectOut = new List<T>();
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(fileName)) { return objectOut; }
try
{
// reading in full file as text
string ss = File.ReadAllText(fileName);
// went with <dynamic> over <T> or <List<T>> to avoid error..
// unexpected character at line 1 column 2
var output = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<dynamic>(ss);
foreach (var Record in output)
{
foreach (T data in Record)
{
objectOut.Add(data);
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
//Log exception here
Console.Write(ex.Message);
}
return objectOut;
}
}
call to process
{
string fname = "../../Names.json"; // <- your json file path
// for alternate types replace string with custom class below
List<string> jsonFile = JsonObj.DeSerializeObject<string>(fname);
}
or this call to process
{
string fname = "../../Names.json"; // <- your json file path
// for alternate types replace string with custom class below
List<string> jsonFile = new List<string>();
jsonFile.AddRange(JsonObj.DeSerializeObject<string>(fname));
}