Deserializing the API

[Mordicant]

Anyone work with deserializing the API returns into C# classes?

Working with the Character collection I can get it to create objects for the id, name, type, currency but when I get to the stats, it shits the bed.

I am using Restsharp and checking out JSON.NET.

Any advice would be great.

[Goblinhunter]

Yep, i'm using C# to access the API. I use JSON.net and it's really as simple as building the required class structure and then deserialising into them. I download the JSON into a string, and then run:

var root = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<RootObject>(jsonString);

To desiarialze, starting with the root object, and it will work out the rest from there. http://json2csharp.com/ is a really useful tool to build your classes to handle the de-serialized data, just feed it your JSON and it will generate classes. They sometimes need a tweak, but it saves a lot of time.

This is a really good tutorial on Json.net - http://dotnetbyexample.blogspot.co.u...h-jsonnet.html

Also, with stats, an issue I found with the faction object under stats, is that the structure of this can vary. Some users it would return a list of strings, other (not logged on in a while) chars, it would return a list, of lists of strings, causing issues. I just had to parse out the incorrect ones.

[Mordicant]

I forgot to mention that I was using JsonCsharp.com and that's what was how I got started. Thank you for the link I will check it out. Basically my end goal is to deserialize into a List<weapon> rather than having to create individual classes for each weapon as they will be adding more in the future.

[Mordicant]

Okay, I am getting somewhere but my code is messy. But I have it going in the right direction. Thank you a bunch.

[maradine]

I did this in GSON for the outfit node. It was ultimately overkill for what I needed to do for PS2Bot, but it's entirely possible.