I'm using the code below for serialization.
var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new { summary = summary });
summary is a custom object of type SplunkDataModel:
public class SplunkDataModel
{
public SplunkDataModel() {}
public string Category { get; set; }
public int FailureCount { get; set; }
public Dictionary<string, SplunkError> FailureEntity { get; set; }
public Dictionary<string, string> JobInfo { get; set; }
public string JobStatus { get; set; }
public int SuccessCount { get; set; }
public List<string> SuccessEntity { get; set; }
public int TotalCount { get; set; }
}
Serialization results in the JSON below:
{
"summary": {
"Category": "category",
"JobStatus": "Failure",
"JobInfo": {
"Course processing failed": ""
},
"TotalCount": 0,
"SuccessCount": 0,
"FailureCount": 0,
"FailureEntity": {},
"SuccessEntity": []
}
}
Now, for unit testing purposes, I need to deserialize it, but the code below is returning an object with empty values. Where am I going wrong?
var deserialized = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<SplunkDataModel>(contents);
On my side, it was because I had no public setter for my properties. Instead of having
public class MyClass
{
public int FileId { get; }
}
I should have
public class MyClass
{
public int FileId { get; set; }
}
silly mistake that cost me hours....
When you serialized your SplunkDataModel to JSON, you wrapped it in an object with a summary property. Hence, when you deserialize the JSON back to objects, you need to use the same structure. There are several ways to go about it; they all achieve the same result.
Declare a class to represent the root level of the JSON and deserialize into that:
public class RootObject
{
public SplunkDataModel Summary { get; set; }
}
Then:
var deserialized = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<RootObject>(contents).Summary;
Or, deserialize by example to an instance of an anonymous type, then retrieve your object from the result:
var anonExample = new { summary = new SplunkDataModel() };
var deserialized = JsonConvert.DeserializeAnonymousType(contents, anonExample).summary;
Or, deserialize to a JObject, then materialize your object from that:
JObject obj = JObject.Parse(contents);
var deserialized = obj["summary"].ToObject<SplunkDataModel>();