JSON DeserializeObject with Class RootObject

Question

Hey all I have the following json string:

{  
   "status":{  
      "msg":"Success",
      "code":0,
      "version":"1.0"
   },
   "metadata":{  
      "music":[  
         {  
            "external_ids":{  },
            "label":"Atlantic Records",
            "release_date":"2010-09-13",
            "album":{  
               "name":"Passion, Pain & Pleasure"
            },
            "title":"Bottoms Up",
            "duration_ms":"242013",
            "genres":[  
               {  
                  "name":"R&B\\Soul\\Funk"
               }
            ],
            "acrid":"63b14329c3beafe35cf08b144a2b4a31",
            "result_from":3,
            "artists":[  
               {  
                  "name":"Trey Songz"
               }
            ]
         }
      ],
      "timestamp_utc":"2016-08-18 13:56:40"
   },
   "result_type":3
}

That I am trying to get the following properties:

label
album > name
title
duration_ms
genres > name
artists > name

The C# code I have is:

dynamic data = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<mReconize.musicJsonReturn.RootObject>(json);
Console.WriteLine(data["metadata"]["music"].label);

Naturally the data["metadata"]["music"].label is causing an error but i'm not sure as to why?

Additional information: Cannot apply indexing with [] to an expression of type 'mR.musicJsonReturn.RootObject'

Answer 1

Try:

Console.WriteLine(data.metadata.music[0].label);

You don't work with an array but an object.

And never ever use dynamic.