c# - Parsing non-standard JSON

Question

Anyone know what type of JSON (if even that!) the following code is? I'm retrieving this from the HTML of a website. I'm trying to parse it in C# with a JSON parser, but I'm having to do lots of preparatory editing to format it as 'valid' JSON according to JSONLint. For example, the names of the variables should all have double quotes rather than having no quotes at all.

{
status: 'A',
displayed: 'Y',
start_time: '2010-11-2600: 00: 00',
start_time_xls: {
    en: '26thofNov201000: 00am',
    es: '26Nov201000: 00am'
},
suspend_at: '2010-11-2619: 57: 59',
is_off: 'Y',
score_home: '',
score_away: '',
bids_status: '',
period_id: '',
curr_period_start_time: '',
score_extra_info: '',
ev_id: 2257335,
blurb: '',
last_mkts_of_day: false,
follow_hcap_mkt: 10999896
}

This will always have the same format and I'd love to just parse it straight to an object in C# or java.

Answer 1

You can use Json.Net to parse your input string. You can even make use of dynamic as below with the help of this extension class (Tested with your string)

dynamic obj = JsonUtils.JsonObject.GetDynamicJsonObject(jsonstr);
Console.WriteLine(obj.names.en);
Console.WriteLine(obj.status);
Console.WriteLine(obj.start_time_xls.en);
Console.WriteLine(obj.suspend_at);

With pure Json.Net

JObject jObj =  (JObject)JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json3);
Console.WriteLine(jObj["names"]["en"]);
Console.WriteLine(jObj["status"]);
Console.WriteLine(jObj["start_time_xls"]["en"]);
Console.WriteLine(jObj["suspend_at"]);