Deserialize Json with minus in property name

Question

I have a JSON return as below.

   {
    "id": 100,
    "name": "employer 100",
    "externalId": "100-100",
    "networkId": 1000,
    "address": {
        "street-address": "1230 Main Street",
        "locality": "Vancouver",
        "postal-code": "V6B 5N2",
        "region": "BC",
        "country-name": "CA"
    }
   }

So I created class to deserialize the above json.

    public class Employer
        {
            public int id { get; set; }
            public string name { get; set; }
            public string externalId { get; set; }
            public int networkId { get; set; }
            public Address address { get; set; }
        }
    public class Address
        {
            public string street_address { get; set; }
            public string locality { get; set; }
            public string postal_code { get; set; }
            public string region { get; set; }
            public string country_name { get; set; }
        }

var response = _client.Execute(req); 
return _jsonDeserializer.Deserialize <Employer> (response);

But I could not get street-address, postal-code and country-name from Json string. I think because of Json output keys contain ""-"" (As result of that I'm getting null).

So how could I resolve my issue ?

Answer 1

Use the DeserializeAs attribute on your properties:

[DeserializeAs(Name = "postal-code")]
public string postal_code { get; set; }

This allows you to set the same of the property in the json that maps to the property in your class, allowing the property to have a different name to the son.

https://github.com/restsharp/RestSharp/wiki/Deserialization