Deserializing the JSON in the C# console application

Question

I want to deserialize the JSON response from the web service call in the C# Console application.JSON looks like

{
"il_response": {
    "custom_forms": [
        {
            "id": 84,
            "name": "Request",
            "note": "Notes",
            "fields": [
                {
                    "label": "Prj",
                    "value": [
                        "ABC",
                        "DEF"
                    ],
                    "name": "Projects"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Submit Date",
                    "value": "October 16, 2017 ",
                    "name": "Submit Date"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Name",
                    "value": "Dhana",
                    "name": "Name"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "il_metadata": {}
}
}

I have all the POCO in the seperate class file called iDTO.cs

public class iResponse
{
    public iResponse(){   }
    public List<iDTO> data { get; set; }
}

public class iDTO
{
    public iDTO() { }
}

public class Field
{
    public string label { get; set; }
    public object value { get; set; }
    public string name { get; set; }
}

public class C_Form
{
    public int id { get; set; }
    public string name { get; set; }
    public string note { get; set; }
    public List<Field> fields { get; set; }
}

public class IlMetadata
{
}

public class IlResponse
{
    public List<C_Form> c_forms { get; set; }
    public IlMetadata il_metadata { get; set; }
}

public class RootObject
{
    public IlResponse il_response { get; set; }
}

Below is my code where I am calling the service

public class APICall
{
    string BaseUR = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["BaseURL"];
    string accessToken = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["AccessToken"];

    public async Task<IHttpActionResult> Get()
    {
        using (var client = new HttpClient())
        {
            ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = new RemoteCertificateValidationCallback(delegate { return true; });
            Uri uri = new Uri(BaseURL);
            client.BaseAddress = uri;
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/xml"));
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer " + accessToken);
            var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
            var datafile = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
            var  returnDataObj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<iLabDTO.RootObject>(datafile);
        }
    }
}

Here I am not sure how to get each name and value property from the field in the JSON. I see that we can use the for each with the fields but not surehow to get both the value and name

Answer 1

This worked using your json, after amending the problem mentioned by Luke. However I'm using iDTO.RootObject whereas your api says iLabDTO.RootObject.

string datafile = File.ReadAllText(@"json.txt");
var returnDataObj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<iDTO.RootObject>(datafile);
foreach (var form in returnDataObj.il_response.c_forms)
{
    Console.WriteLine(form.id);
    Console.WriteLine(form.name);
    Console.WriteLine(form.note);
    foreach(var field in form.fields)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(field.name);
        Console.WriteLine(field.label);
        Console.WriteLine(field.value);
    }
}