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Json.NET: Library to help with .NET - JS communication

Filed under: Web 2.0 News, Front Page, JavaScript, Library, .NET — Dion Almaer at 10:14 am on Monday, July 3, 2006

James Newton-King has released a new library Json.NET that aims to provide JSON .NET API for simply and safely reading and writing valid JSON text. At the core of Json.NET, similar to the .NET XML APIs, are two classes: JsonReader and JsonWriter. Also like XML in .NET, Json.NET includes a JsonSerializer class.

Reading JSON

string jsonText = "['JSON!',1,true,{property:'value'}]";
 
JsonReader reader = new JsonReader(new StringReader(jsonText));
 
Console.WriteLine("TokenType\t\tValueType\t\tValue");
 
while (reader.Read())
{
    Console.WriteLine(reader.TokenType + "\t\t" + WriteValue(reader.ValueType) + "\t\t" + WriteValue(reader.Value))
}
 

Writing JSON

StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
JsonWriter writer = new JsonWriter(sw);
 
writer.WriteStartArray();
writer.WriteValue("JSON!");
writer.WriteValue(1);
writer.WriteValue(true);
writer.WriteStartObject();
writer.WritePropertyName("property");
writer.WriteValue("value");
writer.WriteEndObject();
writer.WriteEndArray();
 
writer.Flush();
 
string jsonText = sw.GetStringBuilder().ToString();
 
Console.WriteLine(jsonText);
// ['JSON!',1,true,{property:'value'}]
 

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