Newtonsoft.Json/Src/Newtonsoft.Json.Tests/Documentation/Samples/Linq/DeserializeWithLinq.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Web;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;

namespace Newtonsoft.Json.Tests.Documentation.Samples.Linq
{
  public class DeserializeWithLinq
  {
    #region Types
    public class BlogPost
    {
      public string Title { get; set; }
      public string AuthorName { get; set; }
      public string AuthorTwitter { get; set; }
      public string Body { get; set; }
      public DateTime PostedDate { get; set; }
    }
    #endregion

    public void Example()
    {
      #region Usage
      string json = @"[
        {
          'Title': 'Json.NET is awesome!',
          'Author': {
            'Name': 'James Newton-King',
            'Twitter': '@JamesNK',
            'Picture': '/jamesnk.png'
          },
          'Date': '2013-01-23T19:30:00',
          'BodyHtml': '<h3>Title!</h3>\r\n<p>Content!</p>'
        }
      ]";

      JArray blogPostArray = JArray.Parse(json);

      IList<BlogPost> blogPosts = blogPostArray.Select(p => new BlogPost
        {
          Title = (string) p["Title"],
          AuthorName = (string) p["Author"]["Name"],
          AuthorTwitter = (string) p["Author"]["Twitter"],
          PostedDate = (DateTime) p["Date"],
          Body = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode((string) p["BodyHtml"])
        }).ToList();

      Console.WriteLine(blogPosts[0].Body);
      // <h3>Title!</h3>
      // <p>Content!</p>
      #endregion
    }
  }
}