json file read from c# code

Question

This is my json file

{
  "UseCase1": {
    "UseCaseId": "Usecase1",
    "UseCaseDescription": "description1"

},
"UseCase2": {
    "UseCaseId": "Usecase2",
    "UseCaseDescription": "description2"

}

}

This is my class

public class UseCase
    {
        public string UseCaseId { get; set;}
        public string UseCaseDescription { get; set;}
    }

How to assign the json elements to a list of this class(UseCase)

I tried the below code, but it is not working

string Json = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(@"D:\ENERGY METER\ENERGY METER –IRP\SourceCode\EDMI.EnergyMeterPOC\EDMI.EnergyMeterPOC.Repository\DataSource\UseCaseData.json");
            JavaScriptSerializer ser = new JavaScriptSerializer();
            var personlist = ser.Deserialize<List<UseCase>>(Json);
            return personlist;

newtonsoft json deserialize list http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16019729/json-deserialize-list — Habeeb, May 17 '16 at 10:40
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13297563/read-and-parse-a-json-file-in-c-sharp — Ben Clarke, May 17 '16 at 10:41
Does `N` in `UseCaseN` keep increasing, do you want to support an unlimited collection? — CodeCaster, May 17 '16 at 10:55

Nkosi · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-17T11:00:22.930

You need to look at your Json again.

When placed into a tool like JSON Utils, you end up with the following.

public class UseCase1
{
    public string UseCaseId { get; set; }
    public string UseCaseDescription { get; set; }
}

public class UseCase2
{
    public string UseCaseId { get; set; }
    public string UseCaseDescription { get; set; }
}

public class RootObject
{
    public UseCase1 UseCase1 { get; set; }
    public UseCase2 UseCase2 { get; set; }
}

In order for your object to be in a list it woudl first have to be an array which your file is not.

You Json file would have to be looking like this to satisfy your UseCase collection requirement

{
  "UseCases": [
  {
    "UseCaseId": "Usecase1",
    "UseCaseDescription": "description1"
  },
  {
    "UseCaseId": "Usecase2",
    "UseCaseDescription": "description2"
  }]
}

which would have the following classes when deserialized...

public class UseCase
{
    public string UseCaseId { get; set; }
    public string UseCaseDescription { get; set; }
}

public class RootObject
{
    public List<UseCase> UseCases { get; set; }
}

json file read from c# code

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