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"));

}