Processing JSON response in an ASP.NET webform

Question

I'm sending an HTTPWebRequest to a service and they are returning a userid in JSON.

They are returning:

{"id: 123456"}

How do I process this? Should I just do a split on the : and take the second element or is there a proper way of doing this?

Answer 1

you can do that or use a json serializer to deserialize it

if you are using .net 3.5 have a look at system.web.script.serialization.javascriptserializer

Answer 2

You could do that, of course, but for anything more complex than that, I would strongly suggest you look at something like Json.NET to handle the deserialization for you.

Answer 3

If you know the type of the object and you are using .net 3.5 you could add a Reference to System.ServiceModel.Web and serialize the object doing this:

var o = new DataContractJsonSerializer(
            typeof(YourClassHere)).ReadObject(Page.Request.InputStream);