I want to deserialize some JSON data and pass it to view in my ASP.NET MVC 5 app.
My model:
public class OrderModel
{
public string Seat { get; set; }
public string objectId { get; set; }
public DateTime? createdAt { get; set; }
}
I've read that to deserialize JSON data to list of object i have to make "root" class which is here:
public class OrderRootModel
{
public List<OrderModel> OrderList { get; set; }
}
Here is a method that gets JSON data in ApiModel class:
//ApiModel class
public OrderRootModel GetOrderData()
{
string url = "https://api.parse.com/1/classes/Orders";
OrderRootModel model = new OrderRootModel();
model = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<OrderRootModel>(getParseIdData(url));
return model;
}
My controller:
public ActionResult Index()
{
ApiModel model = new ApiModel();
return View(model.GetOrderData()) ;
}
My view(for sake of testing it's pretty much an empty page):
@model myCinema.Models.OrderRootModel
@{
ViewBag.Title = "Index";
Layout = null;
}
<h2>Order list</h2>
@foreach (var item in Model.OrderList)
{
@item.objectId;
@item.createdAt;
@item.Seat
}
Now after launching my app i get " Object reference not set to an instance of an object." on "@foreach (var item in Model.OrderList)" line. Can someone help me to solve this problem?
EDIT: To answer why my question is different than others - i understand what usually causes this exception, but i've clearly made a mistake in my code which i cannot find, therefore i'm asking you guys to help me find it. Also my List is inside root class
I will provide rest of the code and JSON i recieve soon.
EDIT2: So in my GetOrderData on return line model appears to be null.
Here is my api JSON string respose from getParseIdData method:
{"results":[{"Seat":"5","createdAt":"2015-11-29T18:50:15.320Z","objectId":"BsDSolYPsT","updatedAt":"2015-11-29T19:40:55.020Z"},{"Seat":"6","createdAt":"2015-12-02T22:31:36.892Z","objectId":"kQJ0R5TUvw","updatedAt":"2015-12-02T22:31:36.892Z"},{"Seat":"7","createdAt":"2015-12-02T22:31:40.261Z","objectId":"sVtdj3aipb","updatedAt":"2015-12-02T22:31:40.261Z"},{"Seat":"8","createdAt":"2015-12-02T22:31:43.082Z","objectId":"7oH2ySrDFH","updatedAt":"2015-12-02T22:31:43.082Z"}]}
Here is method you asked for
public string getParseIdData(string url)
{
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
request.Headers.Add("X-Parse-Application-Id", id);
request.Headers.Add("X-Parse-REST-API-KEY", key);
try
{
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
using (Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream())
{
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream, Encoding.UTF8);
return reader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
catch (WebException ex)
{
WebResponse errorResponse = ex.Response;
using (Stream responseStream = errorResponse.GetResponseStream())
{
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream, Encoding.GetEncoding("utf-8"));
String errorText = reader.ReadToEnd();
Console.WriteLine(errorText);
}
throw;
}
}