Using JSON.Net CustomCreationConverter

Question

I'm trying to deserialize JSON in this format:

{
   "data": [
      {
         "installed": 1,
         "user_likes": 1,
         "user_education_history": 1,
         "friends_education_history": 1,
         "bookmarked": 1
      }
   ]
}

to a simple dictionary like this:

{
    "installed": true,
    "user_likes": true,
    "user_education_history": true,
    "friends_education_history": true,
    "bookmarked": true
}

using the CustomCreationConverter in JSON.NET 4.0 .

I'm getting errors saying I can only deserialize to arrays. Is this correct? How can I "force" it to create a dictionary? Do I need to create a custom class?

Answer 1

Try it:

var convert = function(obj){
    var newObj = {};
    for(var prop in obj.data[0])
        newObj[prop] = obj.data[0][prop];
    return newObj;
}
convert({
    "data": [
        {
            "installed": 1,
            "user_likes": 1,
            "user_education_history": 1,
            "friends_education_history": 1,
            "bookmarked": 1
        }
    ]
});