Map text/plain multiline key=value http response to json and or c# object

Question

I am hitting a 3rd party api and getting a plain text response in the body with the following format:

item[0].Name = name  
item[0].Type = type  
item[1].Name etc...

Is there a simple way of taking this and mapping it to an object or JSON in c#?

I've tried manipulating the string to replace "\n" with "," and "=" with ":" and serializing it as a JSON object but didn't get anywhere with it. I also tried splitting the string and creating objects from it that way which worked but I need to hit a lot of endpoints from this api with varying results and it's not a very clean solution.

Edit

After reading the response content as a string the exact format of the response is item[0].Name=name\r\nitem[0].Type=type\r\nitem[1].Name=name\r\nitem[1].Type=type

Any help is very appreciated!

Answer 1

Try this, it was tested in Visual Studio

static void Main()
{

var t = @"item[0].Name = name0
item[0].Type = type0
item[1].Name = name1
item[1].Type = type1";

    var ta = t.Split("\r\n");

List<NameType>  list = new List<NameType>();
for (var i = 0; i < ta.Length; i += 2)
{
var itemNameArr = ta[i].Split("=");
var itemTypeArr = ta[i + 1].Split("=");

if( itemNameArr[0].Substring(0,itemNameArr[0].IndexOf(".")) 
      != itemTypeArr[0].Substring(0,itemNameArr[0].IndexOf("."))) return //error ; 
        
    var itemName = itemNameArr[1].Replace("\r", string.Empty).Replace("\n", string.Empty);
    var itemType= itemTypeArr[1].Replace("\r", string.Empty).Replace("\n", string.Empty); 
    list.Add(new NameType { Name = itemName, Type = itemType });
}
    var json = JsonSerializer.Serialize(list);
}

public class NameType
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Type { get; set; }
}

json

[
  {
    "Name": " name0",
    "Type": " type0"
  },
  {
    "Name": " name1",
    "Type": " type1"
  }
]