Unable to construct Object from JSON string

Question

I am passing a simple JSON string from my C# client to my webservice . Following is the string I send

"{ \"name\":\"S1\" }"

At the service end I use the following code

class DataDC
{

    public String attr { get; set; }
    public String attrVal { get; set; }

}

JavaScriptSerializer json_serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
DataDC dc = (DataDC)json_serializer.DeserializeObject(str);

I get the following error

"Unable to cast object of type 'System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[System.String,System.Object]' to type 'DataDC'."

Answer 1

Shouldn't it be like this to deserialize to your class:

JavaScriptSerializer json_serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
DataDC dc = json_serializer.Deserialize<DataDC>(str);

Another thing is that you don have Name parameter in your model class therefore nothing will be passed to it. Your JSON should be like this: "{ \"attr\":\"some value\",\"attrVal\":\"some value\" }"

Or change your model class:

class DataDC {
    public String name{ get; set; }    
}

Answer 2

Your Json string/object does not match any of the properties of DataDC

In order for this to work, you would at least need to have a property called name within the class. e.g.

public class DataDC
{

    public string name { get; set; }
    public string attr { get; set; }
    public string attrVal { get; set; }

}

This way you might get one property matched up.

Going with your existing Class, you would need the following Json string;

"{ \"attr\":\"S1\", \"attrVal\":\"V1\" }"

Note: You can also use the following code to deserialize;

DataDC dc = json_serializer.Deserialize<DataDC>(str);

Answer 3

The reason you can't deserialize it is because it doesn't look at all like your class. You should create a class like this:

public class DataDC
{
    public string name{get; set;}
}