Vfrdtyky

Big apologies for the long post. I need to create the below json format for a post to rest api in c#. The below call works and I have used successfully in Postman to add it to the target system.

{

"item": {

    "attrs": {

        "attr": [{

                "name": "IP_Category",

                "value": "Miscellaneous"

            }, {

                "name": "Description",

                "value": "Picture of Rabbit"

            }, {

                "name": "Title",

                "value": "A Rabbit"

            }

        ]

    },

    "resrs": {

        "res": [{

                "filename": "Rabbit.jpg",

                "base64": "/9j/4AAQSkZJR"

            }

        ]

    },

    "acl": {

        "name": "Submitter"

        },

       "entityName": "IP_Document"

    }

}

Based on the research I've done I need to copy and "paste special" into a new class file in visual studio so it can create the class objects based on the json format (Pretty cool!). And this is what it creates:

namespace BasicWebApp

{



public class Rootobject

{

    public Item item { get; set; }

}



public class Item

{

    public Attrs attrs { get; set; }

    public Resrs resrs { get; set; }

    public Acl acl { get; set; }

    public string entityName { get; set; }

}



public class Attrs

{

    public Attr attr { get; set; }

}



public class Attr

{

    public string name { get; set; }

    public string value { get; set; }

}



public class Resrs

{

    public Re res { get; set; }

}



public class Re

{

    public string filename { get; set; }

    public string base64 { get; set; }

}



public class Acl

{

    public string name { get; set; }

}

}

Problem 1: Why is vs renaming the res json object to to class Re? Is it a reserved word in c#?

Problem 2: I know I have to nest things in this fashion but I two levels deep and not sure what to code?

var model = new Rootobject();

model.item = new Item

{

    attrs = new Attrs

    {

        attr = new List<Attr>

            {

                 **now what??**

            }

    }

}

Don't have answer to your first question yet(but looking for it):

For your second question, at now what part you just do:

new Attr(){ name = "name1", value = "value1" },

new Attr(){ name = "name1", value = "value2" }

But that's not what i advise. I advise you to have your Attr collection ready then assign it. Like:

var model = new Rootobject();

model.item = new Item

{

    attrs = yourAttrCollection

}

It also goes for everyting else you do. Have your stuff ready, then assign them. It increases readability in nested objects.

Problem 1: Why is vs renaming the res json object to to class Re? Is it a reserved word in c#?

No Re is not reserved word in class.
As mentioned by TheGeneral

res is plural for re's

You can use JsonProperty attribute to resolve this issue like

public class Resrs

{

    [JsonProperty("res")]

    public Re res { get; set; }

}

Problem 2: I know I have to nest things in this fashion but I two levels deep and not sure what to code?

var model = new Rootobject();

model.item = new Item

{

    attrs = new Attrs

    {

        attr = new List<Attr>

            {

                 new Attr { name = "abc", value = "ABC" },

                 new Attr { name = "pqr", value = "PQR" }

            }

    }

}

Thanks to all that responded. It helped. I ended up using the below code to create the json object I needed.

var model = new RootObject();

            model.item = new Item

            {

                attrs = new Attrs

                {

                    attr = new List<Attr>

                {

                    new Attr { name = "IP_Category", value = ddlContent.Text },

                    new Attr { name = "Description", value = txtDesc.Text },

                    new Attr { name = "Title", value = txtTitle.Text }

                }

                },

                resrs = new Resrs

                {

                    res = new List<Re>

                {

                    new Re { filename = fName, base64 = base64string},

                }

                },

                acl = new Acl

                {

                    name = "Submitter"

                },

                entityName = "IP_Document"

            };