Need to retrieve data from a certain API in Json (C#)

Question

I need to retrieve the name of every product from an API to a listbox in C# (Visual Studio) and I've managed to login sucessfully into the API. I was able to retrieve the data of each product serialized but when I try to deserialize it the result for each product comes like this: 'app1.Form1+Data'. How can I retrieve the name of each product correctly?

Code:

public class Data
{
 public int id { get; set; }
 public string name { get; set; }
}
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
for (int i = 1; i <= 20; i++)
{
 string url = reqlbl.Text;
 WebClient c = new WebClient();
 String userName = "user";
 String passWord = "pass";
 string credentials = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(userName + ":" + passWord));
 c.Headers[HttpRequestHeader.Authorization] = "Basic " + credentials;
 var json = c.DownloadString(url + i.ToString());
 Data result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Data>(json);
 listBox1.Items.Add(result);
 }
}

Note: The variable 'i' represents a product. There are 20 products in total.

Here's an API example of product 1:

{"1":{"id":1,"name":"Product1"}}

• SᴇM: Shoult it be {"Data":{"id":1,"name":"Product1"}}?
• jpcode: I don't think so, the number 1 is representing the object/product number.
• Fildor: That json doesn't make sense to me.
• Faheem: You probably need to add another class Product that has an int id and Data item as members, and then Deserialize to product instead of Data
• Fildor: @Achilles While I agree with the structure, a key of name "1" seems pretty odd.

Answer 1

The json is basically a dictionary, ie assuming it can return more than 1 product or something similar, or maybe its just lazily built api, who knows

Exmaple

var str = "{\"1\":{\"id\":1,\"name\":\"Product1\"}}";
var dataDict = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, Data>>(str);
foreach (var data in dataDict.Values)
 Console.WriteLine(data.id + ", " + data.name);

Output

1, Product1

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Demo here