Deserialize JSON result into C# Object

Question

I have this JSON result that i recieve from API is there a simple way to fetch the needed values from the response ? What is needed is only these values AssetName, SystemID, Lat, Lng and Timestmp into a custom Class with name Result

the resultJson looks like the following

 {
    "result": [
        {
            "Asset": {
                "AssetName": "Banner",
                "AssetType": "Medic",
                "AssetCategory": "Personnel",
                "Hardware": {
                    "HardwareName": " Tag 88",
                    "HardwareType": "Personnel Tag",
                    "HardwareFamily": " Group 2",
                    "DeviceType": "Location Tag",
                    "SystemId": "8845"
                }
            },
            "DetectingAsset": {
                "AssetName": "Shop 2 TR",
                "AssetType": "Tag Reader",
                "AssetCategory": "Network Access Point",
                "Hardware": {
                    "HardwareName": "2 TR",
                    "HardwareType": "Tag Reader",
                    "HardwareFamily": "Group 2",
                    "DeviceType": "Tag Reader",
                    "SystemId": "9.9.1"
                }
            },
            "Location": {
                "Maps": [
                    "Hard Rock"
                ],
                "Zone": "Machine Shop",
                "Lat": null,
                "Lng": null
            },
            "Timestamp": "2023-05-05T11:07:45.673"
        },
        {
            "Asset": {
                "AssetName": "Test1",
                "AssetType": "Medic",
                "AssetCategory": "Personnel",
                "Hardware": {
                    "HardwareName": "Tag 88",
                    "HardwareType": "Personnel Tag",
                    "HardwareFamily": "Group ABIP",
                    "DeviceType": "Location Tag",
                    "SystemId": "1022"
                }
            },
            "DetectingAsset": {
                "AssetName": "Machine Shop 2 TR",
                "AssetType": "Tag Reader",
                "AssetCategory": "Network Access Point",
                "Hardware": {
                    "HardwareName": "2 TR",
                    "HardwareType": "Tag Reader",
                    "HardwareFamily": "Group AIP",
                    "DeviceType": "Tag Reader",
                    "SystemId": "9.9.1"
                }
            },
            "Location": {
                "Maps": [
                    "Hard Rock"
                ],
                "Zone": "Machine Shop",
                "Lat": null,
                "Lng": null
            },
            "Timestamp": "2023-05-05T11:07:45.673"
        }
    ]
        }

The Classes i've created is the following

   class Result
    {
        public APIResult[] aPIResult { get; set; }
    }

    class Result
    {
        public string TimeStamp { get; set; } 
        public string AssetName { get; set; }
        public string locationLat { get; set; }
        public string locationLng { get; set; }
        public string SystemId {get;set;}

    } 



 

Answer 1

you can use the JObject class from the Newtonsoft.Json (Json.NET) library to parse and extract the needed values from the JSON response.

using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
using System;

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        string json = "Your JSON string";

        JObject jsonObject = JObject.Parse(json);
        JArray resultsArray = (JArray)jsonObject["result"];

        foreach (JToken resultToken in resultsArray)
        {
            Result result = new Result();
            
            result.AssetName = (string)resultToken["Asset"]["AssetName"];
            result.SystemId = (string)resultToken["Asset"]["Hardware"]["SystemId"];
            result.locationLat = (string)resultToken["Location"]["Lat"];
            result.locationLng = (string)resultToken["Location"]["Lng"];
            result.TimeStamp = (string)resultToken["Timestamp"];

            Console.WriteLine($"AssetName: {result.AssetName}");
            Console.WriteLine($"SystemID: {result.SystemId}");
            Console.WriteLine($"Lat: {result.locationLat}");
            Console.WriteLine($"Lng: {result.locationLng}");
            Console.WriteLine($"Timestmp: {result.TimeStamp}");
            Console.WriteLine();
        }
    }
}

class Result
{
    public string TimeStamp { get; set; }
    public string AssetName { get; set; }
    public string locationLat { get; set; }
    public string locationLng { get; set; }
    public string SystemId { get; set; }
}