When deserializing an object to a Dictionary
(JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<IDictionary<string,object>>(json)
) nested objects are deserialized to JObject
s. Is it possible to force nested objects to be deserialized to Dictionary
s?
I found a way to convert all nested objects to Dictionary<string,object>
by providing a CustomCreationConverter
implementation:
class MyConverter : CustomCreationConverter<IDictionary<string, object>>
{
public override IDictionary<string, object> Create(Type objectType)
{
return new Dictionary<string, object>();
}
public override bool CanConvert(Type objectType)
{
// in addition to handling IDictionary<string, object>
// we want to handle the deserialization of dict value
// which is of type object
return objectType == typeof(object) || base.CanConvert(objectType);
}
public override object ReadJson(JsonReader reader, Type objectType, object existingValue, JsonSerializer serializer)
{
if (reader.TokenType == JsonToken.StartObject
|| reader.TokenType == JsonToken.Null)
return base.ReadJson(reader, objectType, existingValue, serializer);
// if the next token is not an object
// then fall back on standard deserializer (strings, numbers etc.)
return serializer.Deserialize(reader);
}
}
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var json = File.ReadAllText(@"c:\test.json");
var obj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<IDictionary<string, object>>(
json, new JsonConverter[] {new MyConverter()});
}
}
Documentation: CustomCreationConverter with Json.NET