Accessing key and values of a dictionary within a dictionary

Question

I have the following file:

{ "Ti": 12,
    "IES": false,
    "End": {
        "ABC": "test1",
        "XYZ": "test2",
        "QWE": "test3"
    }

and I have the following C# code that is getting these values through a class:

foreach (var prop in _ABC.GetType().GetProperties())
        {
            _dic.Add(prop.Name, _ABC.GetType().GetProperty(prop.Name).GetValue(_ABC, null).ToString());
        }

This does not give me the values/keys of the dictionary within the existing dictionary. The class ABC looks like following:

   public class ABC
{
    public string Ti { get; set; }
    public string IES { get; set; }
    public End End { get; set; }
    
}

public class END
{
    public string ABC { get; set; }
    public string XYZ { get; set; }
    public string QWE { get; set; }
}

How can I get the loop to go further in to access the values of .END class

Answer 1

You could try deserializing the contents. It's much more robust and less error prone.

--EDITED--

Change some types:

• Ti from string to int
• IES from string to bool
• End from END to Dictionary<string, string>

---

public class ABC
{
    public int Ti { get; set; }
    public bool IES { get; set; }
    public Dictionary<string, string> End { get; set; }
}

The deserializing code:

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text.Json;

//[...]

var fileContent = @"{ ""Ti"": 12,
    ""IES"": false,
    ""End"": {
        ""ABC"": ""test1"",
        ""XYZ"": ""test2"",
        ""QWE"": ""test3""
    }
}";

var abc = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<ABC>(fileContent);
    
Console.WriteLine($"Ti: {abc.Ti}");
Console.WriteLine($"IES: {abc.IES}");
foreach (var key in abc.End.Keys)
{
    Console.WriteLine($"End.{key}: {abc.End[key]}");
}