I have an object of student
Class Student
{
public Student()
{
name = "xyz";
roll = 20;
age = 16;
}
string name;
int roll;
int age;
}
Class Service
{
Student student = new Student();
string s = ???
// what I have to do for getting string like {"name" : "xyz", "roll" : 20, "age" :16}
}
I need the string from the above object.
If i serialize the object I am getting something with escape sequences.
Any help would be greatly appreciable.
Looks like what you really want is to serialize your object to JSON.
This can be easily done with JSON.NET library like this:
Student student = new Student();
var s = JsonConvert.Serialize(student);
If you need this in multiple places you can create an extension method or override the ToString method of Student class:
public class Student
{
public override string ToString()
{
return JsonConvert.Serialize(this);
}
}
You have to serialize your object. For example with the JavaScriptSerializer:
string s = new JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize(student);
Don't forget to add the following using
using System.Web.Script.Serialization;
This is a simplified example, use Vsevolod Goloviznin answer. It is better.
Just use toString();
string s = stuident.toString();
Add an overload to toString() in the class to get pretty print. My personal preferece is to output JSON.
Class Student
{
public Student()
{
name = "xyz";
roll = 20;
age = 16;
}
public override string toString(){
return "{name: " + name + ", roll: " + roll + ", age: " + age + "}";
}
string name;
int roll;
int age;
}
String.Format before I knew what override is :) don't prejudge please, here you go+1
@override is a java annotation!Override the ToString() method of your Student class
something like
public override string ToString()
{
return string.Format("Name: {0}, Roll: {1}, Age: {2}", name, roll, age);
}
The string in your example is JSON. You can use http://www.newtonsoft.com/jsont to serialize: string s = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(student);
You seem to want to serialize it to JSON, check out http://www.newtonsoft.com/json and use it to call string s = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(student);
JsonConvert.SerializeObjectin package Json.NET. Otherwise if you're trying to pretty print something, just use a format string withString.Format.