Converting Object to JSON and JSON to C# Objects

JSON is a faster and more lightweight data exchange pattern between servers and the clients.

Let us see in a demo how to convert an object to JSON and JSON Text into a C# object.

Nuget provides a plug-in called JSON.NET which provides the facility to convert this.

Let us say we have a employee class as below:

And we have a list of employee data; we will convert this into JSON text.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
namespace JSON
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
List < Employee > lstemployee = new List < Employee > ();
lstemployee.Add(new Employee()
{
EmployeeID = 100, EmployeeName = "Pradeep", DeptWorking = "OnLineBanking", Salary = 10000
});
lstemployee.Add(new Employee()
{
EmployeeID = 101, EmployeeName = "Mark", DeptWorking = "OnLineBanking", Salary = 20000
});
lstemployee.Add(new Employee()
{
EmployeeID = 102, EmployeeName = "Smith", DeptWorking = "Mobile banking", Salary = 10000
});
lstemployee.Add(new Employee()
{
EmployeeID = 103, EmployeeName = "John", DeptWorking = "Testing", Salary = 7000
});
string output = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(lstemployee);
Console.WriteLine(output);
Console.ReadLine();
List < Employee > deserializedProduct = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject < List < Employee >> (output);
}
}
}

Output

We saw how we converted an object to JSON and JSON to objects. Thanks for reading.