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PODeserializing some JSON with JSON.NET
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copied!<p>I'm very new to JSON, and I need to parse some that an API is providing. A quick google search turned up <a href="http://james.newtonking.com/pages/json-net.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><strong>JSON.NET</strong></a>, so I'm trying to use it now to parse this JSON into a list object. First of all, <strong>is JSON.NET the best library to use</strong> for this?</p> <p>This is what I'm trying to do: I have a <strong>class called Item</strong>, for example. The json has many "elements" (if that's what they are called), and each <strong>contains 3 fields</strong>: an integer named id, a string named name, and a datetime named creationTime. I would like to parse all of these Item "elements" from the json <strong>into a list of Item objects</strong>. I have created 3 fields in the Item class to match the JSON. How can this be done using JSON.NET? </p> <p>I've tried:</p> <pre><code>List<Item> fav = (List<Item>)new JsonSerializer().Deserialize(new JsonReader((TextReader)new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))); </code></pre> <p>but it doesn't seem to work. I get a casting error - it just can't process it into a list enclosure, but I'm not even sure whether it's able to process the JSON into one Item class (JSON.NET is not very well-documented, but I'm going to heavily debug it tomorrow).</p> <p>Can you give me some sample code to explain how I can parse it with JSON.NET?</p> <p>Thanks!</p> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> By the way, forgot to mention - my project is going to be targeting .NET Framework 2.0, so I'm using the legacy version of JSON.NET: 1.3.1. Are there any HUGE advantages that may make the project worth converting to .NET 3.5, while undermining the minimal system requirements?</p> <p><strong>UPDATE #2:</strong> I have decided to use the JavascriptSerializer class in System.Web.Extensions.dll instead of JSON.NET, and a question about that is posted <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1450513/using-system-web-script-serialization-javascriptserializer-to-deserialize-json">here</a>. Thanks!</p>

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