Duplicate JSON classes

I'm creating a program that has multiple independent processes that grab JSON from different sites. So I copy the JSON results and Paste Special into my project and it creates the associated class info. So the problem.

I paste in the first one and get like:

public class Rootobject
{
public Datum[] data { get; set; }
public Meta meta { get; set; }
public Links links { get; set; }
}
public class Meta
{
public int count { get; set; }
public string version { get; set; }
}
public class Links
{
public string self { get; set; }
public string first { get; set; }
public string last { get; set; }
public string next { get; set; }
}
public class Datum
{
public string type { get; set; }
public string id { get; set; }
public Attributes attributes { get; set; }
public Relationships relationships { get; set; }
public Links4 links { get; set; }
}

Then I go to the other source and get:

public class Rootobject
{
public Result result { get; set; }
public bool success { get; set; }
}
public class Result
{
public string title { get; set; }
public Datum[] data { get; set; }
public int total { get; set; }
}
public class Datum
{
public string type { get; set; }
public string title { get; set; }
public string series_title { get; set; }
public string label { get; set; }
public string content_id { get; set; }
public string airdate { get; set; }
public long airdate_ts { get; set; }
public DateTime airdate_iso { get; set; }
public string expiredate_raw { get; set; }
public string season_number { get; set; }
public string episode_number { get; set; }
public string duration { get; set; }
public int duration_raw { get; set; }
public string rating { get; set; }
public Regionalratings regionalRatings { get; set; }
public string description { get; set; }
public Thumb thumb { get; set; }
public string url { get; set; }
public string app_url { get; set; }
public string amazon_est_url { get; set; }
public string itunes_est_url { get; set; }
public string streaming_url { get; set; }
public string live_streaming_url { get; set; }
public string tms_program_id { get; set; }
public object show_id { get; set; }
public string asset_type { get; set; }
public string status { get; set; }
public string expiry_date { get; set; }
public bool is_paid_content { get; set; }
public string ios_available_status { get; set; }
public string ios_available_date { get; set; }
public string android_available_status { get; set; }
public string android_available_date { get; set; }
public long tracking_media_id { get; set; }
public object signature { get; set; }
public object media_type { get; set; }
public object vtag { get; set; }
public bool is_live { get; set; }
public int medTime { get; set; }
public string genre { get; set; }
public Metadata metaData { get; set; }
public string brand { get; set; }
public string[] videoProperties { get; set; }
public string media_content_type { get; set; }
public object mpd_url { get; set; }
public object license_url { get; set; }
public object closed_captions { get; set; }
public int positionNum { get; set; }
public bool is_protected { get; set; }
public bool drm { get; set; }
public string raw_url { get; set; }
public string episode_title { get; set; }
public object pubdate_iso { get; set; }
public string thumbUrl { get; set; }
public bool isUserSubscriber { get; set; }
public string aaLink { get; set; }
public string dataTracking { get; set; }
public string displayTitle { get; set; }
}

There is more to both of these but basically Rootobject and Datum are duplicated. Any way to deal with this?

Thanks.

2 Replies

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John Riker5y ago
Thanks for the reply. May be reading your info wrong, or I posted things wrong, but the two sets of JSON are not related. First block is a feed from NBC and the second from CBS. Looks like you are showing how to relate one to the other? So NBC and CBS use the same values in their JSON calls so the classes end up being the same name. But I'm accessing them both within the same program. Not sure how to deal with that if it makes sense.

Edit: Note not sure if the right answer is to merge the two together. So have one Datum class and all the values between them merge together. Maybe that's what you are trying to get me to understand above.
Sachin Singh5y ago
You can create Base Class for common properties example
public class DatumBase
{
     public string type { get; set; }
     public string id { get; set; }
     public Attributes attributes { get; set; }
     public Relationships relationships { get; set; }
     public Links4 links { get; set; }
}

Public Class Datum:DatumBase
{
  Other unique poperties ex
  public string aaLink{get;set;}
}