JSON Parse in C#

Question

What is wrong with this code?

JSON

cities: [
{
    city: {
        id: 1,
        name: "A.S.Peta",
        status: "Active"
    }
},..............

C# Code

public class Cities
{
    public City[] cities;    
}

public class City
{
    public int id; //{ get; set; }
    public string name; //{ get; set; }
    public string status; //{ get; set; }
}

//De-Serialization
var jsSerialize = new JavaScriptSerializer();
var cities = jsSerialize.Deserialize<Cities>(result);

Not populating internal object City. but showing collection with all records. Any Idea?

Answer 1

The "inner" city in your json object is adding a nested object within the array.

Try this json code :

{
    "cities": [
    {  
        "id": 1,
        "name": "A.S.Peta",
        "status": "Active"
    },
    {  
        "id": 2,
        "name": "Strasbourg",
        "status": "Active"
    }
    ]
}

If you need to stick to your originial json structure, you can try this c# code:

public class City2
{
    public int id { get; set; }
    public string name { get; set; }
    public string status { get; set; }
}

public class City
{
    public City2 city { get; set; }
}

public class RootObject
{
    public List<City> cities { get; set; }
}

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