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Thank you for this very helpful forum.
I have this API request that is a GET request and it returns a massive JSON text. So, what is the easiest way to make the JSON file properly formatted and usable? This is what the code looks like, by the way, that gets the massive text return. The way it is now, when the code is run, it dumps the unformatted text to the console.
Please advise and, again, much thanks for this service.
Could you please tell us what type of the project you're using?
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Hi @William Thompson, Is there any update in this issue?
Use the following.
Console.WriteLine(JsonSerializer.Serialize(TODO, new JsonSerializerOptions { WriteIndented = true }));
Here you go.
I will give it a try immediately and let you know!
this seems only to put a lot of "\u0022" strings in the output. Is there an actual JSON class?
If what I provided worked than mark it as answered. Regarding \u0022 that needs to be a new question and in the new question provide sample json.
An easy way to process JSON data in C# is to use System.Text.Json.
using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Text.Json;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
class Program
{
static async Task Main(string[] args)
{
var client = new HttpClient();
var response = await client.GetStringAsync("https://api.example.com/data");
using (JsonDocument jsonDocument = JsonDocument.Parse(response))
{
var formattedJson = JsonSerializer.Serialize(jsonDocument.RootElement, new JsonSerializerOptions { WriteIndented = true });
Console.WriteLine(formattedJson);
}
}
}
Can you show your output (removing any private information)?
You can use https://github.com/JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json