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I have a blob of JSON that I'm reading in C# using the Newtonsoft JSON.NET library. The content within "data" are dynamically named objects. So I won't know when reading the data that the first object might be named "ABC123". Since each one of these objects within "data" has the same schema it would be easiest for me to convert this into an array.

Convert:

data: {
    ABC123: { id: 1, name: "Name 1" },
    XYZ789: { id: 2, name: "Name 2" },
    QRS456: { id: 3, name: "Name 3" },
    TUV678: { id: 4, name: "Name 4" }
}

To:

data: [
    { id: 1, name: "Name 1" },
    { id: 2, name: "Name 2" },
    { id: 3, name: "Name 3" },
    { id: 4, name: "Name 4" }
]

How would I do this using JSON.NET? I'm hoping to achieve this using a serialization attribute so that I don't have to loop through the objects.

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    Deserialize to a Dictionary<string, T> where ABC123 et al will be the keys Commented Jan 11, 2018 at 22:59
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    Adding to @Plutonix suggestion (which is correct), once converted you can select all the values of the dictionary into your array. Commented Jan 11, 2018 at 23:00
  • stackoverflow.com/q/20727787/1070452 and 15,000 similar posts here Commented Jan 11, 2018 at 23:00
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    Yes, thank you @Plutonix that worked perfectly. In my class I mapped this array of objects to public Dictionary<string, MyClass> Persons { get; set; } and now everything works as expected. Commented Jan 11, 2018 at 23:39
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