I'm having some trouble creating a request.

There is an another API that have a request pattern like this:

{
  "someNumber":"111222333",
   "theList":{
     "0":"1233",
     "1":"2333"          
   },
  "something":"thisThing"
}

My trouble is with theList. How can I simulate those indexes on the request at my API? What I did was the following:

public class Item
{
    [JsonProperty("someNumber")]
    public long Number{ get; set; }
    [JsonProperty("theList")]
    public List<string> NumberList{ get; set; }
    [JsonProperty("something")]
    public string Something{ get; set; }
}

But this is obviously not correct, what is the best way to simulate what was done in the other API?

CodePudding user response：

The json structure for theList can be deserialized into a Dictionary<string,string>:

public class Item
{
    [JsonProperty("someNumber")]
    public long Number{ get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("theList")]
    public Dictionary<string, string> NumberList{ get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("something")]
    public string Something{ get; set; }
}

Demo

If the keys and values in theList are always numbers, and since you're using Netwontoft.Json, you could also deserialize straight into Dictionary<int, int>, Dictionary<int, long>, Dictionary<string, long>, etc. However, this won't work in System.Text.Json.