I am creating a special library for converting an array of objects into a json string, as well as publishing it. I recently ran into a problem when I cannot detect an internal array.
public static string ConvertArray( params object[] jsonData ) {
if( jsonData.Length % 2 != 0 ) throw new ArgumentException( string.Format( "Key \'{0}\' missing value", jsonData[jsonData.Length - 1] ) );
string json = "{";
for( int i = 0; i < jsonData.Length; ) {
json += string.Format( "\"{0}\":", jsonData[i++] );
if( jsonData[i] is string ) {
Console.WriteLine( "Found a string" );
json += string.Format( "\"{0}\",", jsonData[i++] );
} else if( jsonData[i].GetType( ).IsArray ) {
Console.WriteLine( "Found an internal array" );
json += string.Format( "{0},", ConvertArray( jsonData[i++] ) );
} else {
if( jsonData[i] is byte || jsonData[i] is sbyte || jsonData[i] is int || jsonData[i] is uint || jsonData[i] is short || jsonData[i] is ushort || jsonData[i] is long || jsonData[i] is ulong || jsonData[i] is float || jsonData[i] is double || jsonData[i] is bool || jsonData[i] is decimal ) {
Console.WriteLine( "Found a generic" );
json += string.Format( "{0},", jsonData[i++] );
} else if( jsonData[i] is char ) {
Console.WriteLine( "Found a char" );
json += string.Format( "\'{0}\',", jsonData[i++] );
} else {
Console.WriteLine( "Found an object" );
object work = jsonData[i++];
try {
MethodInfo workMethod = work.GetType().GetMethod("ToJsonString");
json += string.Format( "{0},", workMethod.Invoke( work, new object[] { } ) );
} catch {
try {
using( MemoryStream memStr = new MemoryStream( ) ) {
new BinaryFormatter( ).Serialize( memStr, work );
memStr.Seek( 0, SeekOrigin.Begin );
using( StreamReader strReader = new StreamReader( memStr ) ) {
json += string.Format( "\"{0}\",", strReader.ReadToEnd( ) );
}
}
} catch {
throw new ArgumentException( "The value for key \'{0}\' does not contain a public method ToJsonString and cannot be serialized" );
}
}
}
}
}
return json + "}";
}
I run it with:
string jsonString = JsonWebUtil.ConvertArray( new object[] {
"jsonrpc","2.0",
"method","generateIntegers",
"params",JsonWebUtil.ConvertArray( new object[] {
"apiKey", "<REDACTED>",
"n", 14,
"min", 0,
"max", 10,
} ),
"id", 10461
} );
And I get the following output:
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"generateIntegers","params":"{"apiKey":"<REDACTED>","n":14,"min":0,"max":10,}","id":10461,}
There should be no quotes in the internal array. And when it goes through my code, the console shows that it shows up as what I declared as generics. I have no idea why it is jsonData[i].getType().IsArraynot returning the correct value.