create POCO when id property in json acts like object

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This is the first time I encountured this difficulty. I'm trying to parse a simple json with c# using newtonsoft.net but I don't know how to handle this kind of problem. My json is in this format :

    {
      "events": {
        "119327": {
          "name": "John doe",
          "start": "1524435387600",
          "end": "152446565612800",
          "details": "description"
          "image_url": "http://go/to/url"
        },
        "119217": {
          "name": "John doe",
          "start": "1524534243387600",
          "end": "15244656612800",
          "details": "description"
          "image_url": "http://go/to/url"
        },
        "14397": {
          "name": "John doe",
          "start": "1524386567600",
          "end": "15244143242800",
          "details": "description"
          "image_url": "http://go/to/url"
        }
      }
    }

Now as you can see the id act like an object and also as the id itself which I will need it later. Can anyone explain to me on how I can get around to this problem. Any approachments? Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Looks like a duplicate of [How can I parse a JSON string that would cause illegal C# identifiers?](https://stackoverflow.com/a/24536564/3744182) or [Create a strongly typed c# object from json object with ID as the name](https://stackoverflow.com/a/34213724/3744182). See [How to auto-generate a C# class file from a JSON object string](https://stackoverflow.com/q/21611674/3744182) for instructions on how to generate a model for the individual objects. — dbc, Apr 17 '18 at 18:13

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 17 '18 at 17:24

I would define some "Event" class like this with

      name
      start
      end
      detail
      image_url

Then, I would try to deserialize events as a Dictionary<int, Event>.

After that, you can always map this to another EventWithId class similar to the Event class with an additional id field, using some LINQ query on the resulting Dictionary.

create POCO when id property in json acts like object

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