If I have a basic model set up like this:
public class User
{
public string ID { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Age { get; set; }
}
and let's say I receive a JSON object structured as follows:
var users = {
items: [
{ id: "1", name: "John", age: "25"}
]
};
and when passing it to a WebMethod like this:
Project.Web.Services.AJAXService.Save(JSON.stringify(users), function (result) {
//
});
How can I properly parse it on the server side so that I can iterate through it using a foreach loop?
I attempted the following:
[WebMethod(true)]
public void Save(string usersJson)
{
List<User> users = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<User>>(usersJson);
foreach (var user in users)
{
string info = user.Name;
}
}
However, an Exception is thrown with the message:
Cannot deserialize the current JSON object (e.g. {"name":"value"}) into type 'System.Collections.Generic.List`1[Project.Data.Models.User]' because the type requires a JSON array (e.g. [1,2,3]) to be properly deserialized.
edit: After learning more from this post, I realized that it is actually not pure JSON but rather JavaScript object literal notation. Although, my goal remains to accurately interpret the existing data structure.
edit2: Here is the content of the usersJson:
"{\"items\":[{\"id\":\"1\",\"name\":\"John\",\"age\":\"25\"}]}"