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Created September 14, 2012 03:22
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Dynamic wrapper around a JSON serializer (in this case, ServiceStack)
using ServiceStack.Text;
public class DynamicJson : DynamicObject
{
private readonly IDictionary<string, object> _hash = new Dictionary<string, object>();
public static string Serialize(dynamic instance)
{
var json = JsonSerializer.SerializeToString(instance);
return json;
}
public static dynamic Deserialize(string json)
{
// Support arbitrary nesting by using JsonObject
var deserialized = JsonSerializer.DeserializeFromString<JsonObject>(json);
var hash = deserialized.ToDictionary<KeyValuePair<string, string>, string, object>(entry => entry.Key, entry => entry.Value);
return new Json(hash);
}
public DynamicJson(IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, object>> hash)
{
_hash.Clear();
foreach (var entry in hash)
{
_hash.Add(Underscored(entry.Key), entry.Value);
}
}
public override bool TrySetMember(SetMemberBinder binder, object value)
{
var name = Underscored(binder.Name);
_hash[name] = value;
return _hash[name] == value;
}
public override bool TryGetMember(GetMemberBinder binder, out object result)
{
var name = Underscored(binder.Name);
return YieldMember(name, out result);
}
public override string ToString()
{
return JsonSerializer.SerializeToString(_hash);
}
private bool YieldMember(string name, out object result)
{
if (_hash.ContainsKey(name))
{
var json = _hash[name].ToString();
if (json.TrimStart(' ').StartsWith("{"))
{
result = Deserialize(json);
return true;
}
result = json;
return _hash[name] == result;
}
result = null;
return false;
}
internal static string Underscored(IEnumerable<char> pascalCase)
{
var sb = new StringBuilder();
var i = 0;
foreach (var c in pascalCase)
{
if (char.IsUpper(c) && i > 0)
{
sb.Append("_");
}
sb.Append(c);
i++;
}
return sb.ToString().ToLowerInvariant();
}
}
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