using Newtonsoft.Json;

using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;

using System;

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namespace SimpleCSCore

{

    class Record

    {

        [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "DataTree")]

        public Foo Data { get; set; }

    }

​

    class Foo

    {

        [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "Location1")]

        public string MyString1 { get; set; }

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        [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "Location2")]

        public string MyString2 { get; set; }

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        public override string ToString()

            => $"{{ MyString1 = \"{MyString1}\", MyString2 = \"{MyString2}\" }}";

    }

​

    class Program

    {

        static void Main() => new Program().Run();

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        static string JsonString =

@"

[

    {

        Name : 'Malcolm Reynolds',

        DataTree : {

            Location0 : 'Captain',

            Location1 : 'Shadow',

            Location2 : 'Independents',

            Location3 : 'Serenity'

        }

    },

    {

        FirstName : 'Inara',

        LastName : 'Serra',

        DataTree : {

            Location0 : 'Companion',

            Location1: 'Shihnon',

            Location2: 'House Madrassa',

        }

    }

]

";

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        Foo UseClasses()

        {

            var records = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Record[]>(JsonString);

            return records[0].Data;

        }

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        Foo UseLinqForJson()

        {

            var records = JArray.Parse(JsonString);

            var dataTree = records[0].SelectToken("DataTree");

            return new Foo

            {

                MyString1 = dataTree["Location1"].Value<string>(),

                MyString2 = dataTree["Location2"].Value<string>(),

            };

        }

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        Foo UseLinqForJsonAndClasses()

        {

            var records = JArray.Parse(JsonString);

            return records[0].SelectToken("DataTree").ToObject<Foo>();

        }

​

        void Run()

        {

            Console.WriteLine(UseClasses());

            Console.WriteLine(UseLinqForJson());

            Console.WriteLine(UseLinqForJsonAndClasses());

        }

    }

}