Unfortunately the documentation for the Json.Net library is incredibly lacking. After trying out about a billion different things, I’ve finally figured out how to Deserialize a JavaScript Array of Object Literals in JSON format into something usable on the .Net side.

1. Create a custom class which describes the Object Literals that you’ll be passing in:


/// Used for deserializing JSON objects from JavaScript
public class JsonSeat {
/// The seat ID (SeatNo)
public int id;
/// Name of the Price Type
public string priceType;
/// Number of the Price Type
public int priceTypeID;
/// Price of the ticket
public string price;
/// Name of the seating section
public string section;
/// The Row and Number of the seat
public string rowAndNumber;
/// The HyperLink.ClientID of the seat <a> element
public string anchorID;
}


2. Deserialize your JSON string into a List of your custom classes:


List<JsonSeat> selectedSeats = (List<JsonSeat>) JavaScriptConvert.DeserializeObject(txt_Selection.Text,typeof(List<JsonSeat>));


3. You can now iterate through your objects and access them as expected:


foreach (JsonSeat seat in selectedSeats) {
lit_Temp.Text += string.Format("Seat: {0}; {1}{2}",seat.id,seat.rowAndNumber,"<br />");
}


Unfortunately the documentation for the Json.Net library is incredibly lacking. After trying out about a billion different things, I’ve finally figured out how to Deserialize a JavaScript Array of Object Literals in JSON format into something usable on the .Net side. I’m going to try and insert some formatted C# here, hopefully the comment form doesn’t destroy it!

1. Create a custom class which describes the Object Literals that you’ll be passing in:

2. Deserialize your JSON string into a List of your custom classes:

List<JsonSeat> selectedSeats = (List<JsonSeat>) JavaScriptConvert.DeserializeObject(txt_Selection.Text,typeof(List<JsonSeat>));


3. You can now iterate through your objects and access them as expected:

1. Create a custom class which describes the Object Literals that you’ll be passing in:

2. Deserialize your JSON string into a List of your custom classes:

3. You can now iterate through your objects and access them as expected:

Regards

While it is now improved not every class can be serialized and deserialized. Some have self referencing loops for example which can cause problems.

string jsonText = JavaScriptConvert.SerializeObject(value);

Morris the JsonWriter and JsonReader are underlying classes and you would really only use them if you wanted exact control over what is written. Normally you would use the JsonSerializer and methods like the one above to convert to and from JSON.

I have experience with this because I implemented the same style API in Delphi and it really sucked.

[I replaced it with variants objects/arrays which is clean, although disadvantage of overhead with variants, but advantage that is good for receiving JSON]

By default what it outputs now is a valid JavaScript object literal but you’re right that it doesn’t exactly conform to the spec by default. Internally it doesn’t matter as the JsonReader class is pretty robust in that it handles all the different situations, but for the sake of other readers that might be something to change next version.