I am creating a Web API endpoint that will act as a service to retrieve our application configurations, do logging, etc. The problem I am running into is being able to deserialize the Json in the console applications.
Setup
public class Person
{
public string FirstName { get; set; }
public string LastName { get; set; }
public DateTime DateOfBirth { get; set; }
}
Web API
[HttpGet]
[Route("Person")]
public IHttpActionResult GetPerson()
{
Person person = new Person
{
FirstName = "Steve",
LastName = "Rogers",
DateOfBirth = new DateTime(1920, 7, 4)
};
return Ok(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(person));
}
Console Application
using (var client = new HttpClient())
{
client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://localhost");
var response = client.GetAsync("api/Person").Result;
var data = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
var person = DeserializeJson<Person>(data);
}
public static T DeserializeJson<T>(string input)
{
var result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(input);
var result2 = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(result.ToString());
return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>(result2.ToString());
}
Values
data = "\"{\\"FirstName\\":\\"Steve\\",\\"LastName\\":\\"Rogers\\",\\"DateOfBirth\\":\\"1920-07-04T00:00:00\\"}\""
result = "{\"FirstName\":\"Steve\",\"LastName\":\"Rogers\",\"DateOfBirth\":\"1920-07-04T00:00:00\"}"
result2 = {{ "FirstName": "Steve", "LastName": "Rogers", "DateOfBirth": "1920-07-04T00:00:00" }}
The issue that I am having is that I cannot deserialize into the Person object until I have deserialized for the 3rd time. The value in result2 is the only one I have been able to successfully deserialize into Person. Is there a more efficient way to accomplish this deserialization? Preferably without having 3 iterations.
I was able to get the following to run successfully (based on this Microsoft article):
Console App:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
RunAsync().Wait();
}
static async Task RunAsync()
{
using (var client = new HttpClient())
{
client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://localhost:3963/");
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync("api/Person");
Person product = await response.Content.ReadAsAsync<Person>();
}
}
Controller:
public class PersonController : ApiController
{
public Person GetPerson()
{
Person person = new Person
{
FirstName = "Steve",
LastName = "Rogers",
DateOfBirth = new DateTime(1920, 7, 4)
};
return person;
}
}
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