Parsing Facebook Open Graph API JSON Response in C#

Question

I try to get parse JSON response for the following link: https://graph.facebook.com/feed/?ids=135395949809348,149531474996&access_token=

The response is like that:

{
   "135395949809348": {
      "data": [
         {
             ....Some data
         }]
     }
,
   "325475509465": {
      "data": [
         {
       ....Some data......
      }]
    }
}

I use System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer.Deserialize(string json) method. But the objects key names always different , so I can't define the class that can be used for parsing this response. Is anyone has any experience in parsing multiple id's response from Facebook?

Answer 1

Hey,

What is your issue with the Deserialize? Deserialize is going to produce a Dictionary, with potential inner arrays and dictionary instances too....

It wouldn't parse as a custom object unless you build a serializer to do that... or look at JSON.NET: http://james.newtonking.com/pages/json-net.aspx

HTH.

Answer 2

With JSON.NET you can read the respose as JObject and then access it via indexer.

var json = JObject.Parse(result);
var array = json["325475509465"]["data"];

Then you can deserialize objects from array...