How to deserialize a dictionary containing a list of dictionaries

Question

I am writing a Windows Phone app that will get a set of data from a server and display each entry in a list box.

The data comes from the server looking like this

{
  "data": [
    {
      "value1": 777103069782066, 
      "value2": "SomeString", 
      "value3": "TextToDisplay1"
    }, 
    {
      "value1": 750050696652932, 
      "value2": "SomeString2", 
      "value3": "TextToDisplay2"
    }, 
    {
      "value1": 516092242936133, 
      "value2": "SomeString3", 
      "value3": "TextToDisplay3"
    } 
  ]
}

I know how to get the data into a dictionary like this

Dictionary<string, object> values = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, object>>(json);

But it mashes it all into one dictionary entry (to be expected, that's all there is).

How can I take each of the dictionaries contained in the list - contained in the dictionary "data" and be able to store them in a variable(a list, with each list entry being a dictionary of data as shown above)?

Sorry if the question is kind of wordy. I can clarify if needed.

Thanks,
Chris

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2546138/deserializing-json-data-to-c-using-json-net — Claus Jørgensen, Sep 20 '11 at 02:04

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 20 '11 at 10:44

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I don't know if it helps but maybe you should change your Dictionary declaration and Deserialization to Dictionary< string, Dictionary < string, object>>.

answered Sep 20 '11 at 10:44

BigL

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