Accessing Nested Array in JSON in C# .NET Core

Question

thank you in advance for your contributions. I am passing a JSON string to a .NET controller and parsing it in a C# class. Here is my JSON..

{"CusEmail":"[email protected]","Name":"Foo Bar",
 "Items":[{"ItemId":1234,"ItemDesc":"Item-1234"},{"ItemId":5678,"ItemDesc":"Item-5678"}]
}

Here is a snippet of my C# class defining the JSON variables (not including the nested array).

public class CreateOrderRequest
{
 public string CusEmail { get; set; }
 public string Name { get; set; }
}

And here is a snippet of my C# class that is parsing the JSON

 public JsonResult CreateShipTo(CreateOrderRequest createOrderRequest)
 {
 ... parsing code here
 }

Currently, all of this code works but now I need to access that nested array "Items" in the JSON. How do I declare that correctly in the code above? I tried Array but that did not work.

• dbc: Use one of the tools from How to auto-generate a C# class file from a JSON string to generate a data model for you. You will need to add a public List<Item> Items { get; set; } to CreateOrderRequest where Item looks like public class Item { public long ItemId { get; set; } public string ItemDesc { get; set; } }.
• devNull: I tried Array but that did not work - Can you include what you tried? How did it not work? Did you get an error?

Answer 1

A List will work:

public class Item
{
 public int ItemId { get; set; }
 public string ItemDesc { get; set; }
}
public class WithItems
{
 public List<Item> Items { get; set; }
}