C#

Iterate JSON where Member Names are Data Values

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Demonstrates how to parse JSON where member names are not keywords, but instead are data values. C#

bool success = false;

Chilkat.JsonObject json = new Chilkat.JsonObject();

success = json.LoadFile("qa_data/json/valuesAsNames.json");

//  Imagine we have JSON such as the following:

//  {
//    "1680": {
//      "entity_id": "1680",
//      "type_id": "simple",
//      "sku": "123"
//    },
//    "1701": {
//      "entity_id": "1701",
//      "type_id": "simple",
//      "sku": "456"
//    }
//  }
//  

//  This presents a parsing problem because the member names, such as "1680"
//  are not keywords.  Instead they are data values.  We don't know what they
//  may be in advance.  

//  To solve, we iterate over the members, get the name of each, ...
int numMembers = json.Size;
int i;
for (i = 0; i <= numMembers - 1; i++) {

    string name = json.NameAt(i);

    Debug.WriteLine(name + ":");
    Chilkat.JsonObject jRecord = json.ObjectAt(i);

    Debug.WriteLine("entity_id: " + jRecord.StringOf("entity_id"));
    Debug.WriteLine("type_id: " + jRecord.StringOf("type_id"));
    Debug.WriteLine("sku: " + jRecord.StringOf("sku"));

}