more json c# issues -

this continuation of previous question of mine. solution worked trying @ time broke whole lot of code. know bad practice not make sure beforehand yeah... live , learn.

anyhoo, here's q: an easy way serialise c# objects

what want know is: there way newtonsoft library handle stuff? if yes, how? if no, suggestions?

what i'm doing chatting ror3 app using json, cant deserialise response. here's little code:

the response i'm getting ror looks like:

[{"directory":{"created_at":"2011-07-20t22:29:38z","drive_info":1,"id":15,"name":"new drive","parent":0,"size":0,"updated_at":"2011-07-20t22:29:39z","user":1}}] 

i'm trying deserialise list of directory objects using:

public static compositecollection deserialise<t>(string json)     {         compositecollection result = new compositecollection();         jarray arr = jarray.parse(json);          foreach (jobject obj in arr)         {             result.add(jsonconvert.deserializeobject<t>(obj.first.first.tostring()));         }         return result;     } 

and relevant part of directory class looks like:

//   [serializable] //   [datacontract] public class directory {   //  [datamember]     public int id { get; set; }  //    [datamember]     public string name { get; set; }   //   [datamember]     public int parent { get; set; }  //    [datamember]     public int drive_info { get; set; }  //      [datamember]     public int size { get; set; }  //     [datamember]     public int user { get; set; }   //       [datamember]     public string state      {                  {           /*  if (parent == 0)                 return _state.identify();             directory parental;             return parental.state;*/             if (parental != null)                 return parental.state;             return _state.identify();         }         set         {             _state = statefactory.getstate(value);         }     }      //[jsonignore]     blah... 

i can deserialise of time uncommenting [serializable] (sometimes following error: object of type 'system.int32' cannot converted type 'offloadui.directory'. still investigating), , can serialise uncomenting [datacontract] , instances of [datamember]. need work in both directions.

thanks zootius found useful guide. here's did, works bought one:

[jsonobject(memberserialization.optin)] public class directory {     [jsonproperty]     public int id { get; set; }      [jsonproperty]     public string name { get; set; }      [jsonproperty]     public int parent { get; set; }