Mapping a certain JSON value to Enum value C#

Question

I am creating classes for the Stack Exchange API. The filter_object type contains a member filter_type which will be either safe, unsafe, or invalid. So I created an enum like this:

[JsonConverter(typeof(StringEnumConverter))] public enum FilterType { safe, @unsafe, // Here lies the problem. invalid }

Since unsafe is a keyword, I had to add some prefix to it. But how can I make the value "unsafe" to automatically map to @unsafe? Example JSON:

{ "filter": "....", "filter_type": "unsafe", "included_fields": [ "...", "....", "....." ] }

How can I deserialize it, such that the filter_type is automatically converted to FilterType.@unsafe?

Update - Solved:

Using the @ symbol before an identifier makes it possible to be the same as keywords. It works fine even though the @ appears in intellisense.

You can also use uppercase like you do for class names etc in C#. And add a camelcase converter, see this question — huysentruitw
– huysentruitw, Commented Dec 10, 2015 at 22:01
@AlbertoMonteiro That was not the correct answer. Even if unmapped, if the names are correct, it will automatically get parsed as the correct enum. The problem was that unsafe is a keyword. I already came across prefixing @ so that a keyword can be used as an identifier. It appeared in intellisense and so I thought it was not working. But on testing I found it was correct. Seeing that there were no other answers, I accepted yours. However, that's not what is done. So I unaccepted it and edited my question to include the solution. I don't see any wrong in it. — Fᴀʀʜᴀɴ Aɴᴀᴍ
– Fᴀʀʜᴀɴ Aɴᴀᴍ, Commented Dec 21, 2015 at 18:17
@AlbertoMonteiro And i would have downvoted it because it was not the correct solution but the vote is locked. The JsonProperty maps to properties, not values. Because it already contained the @, it worked. Try it with _unsafe. Your method will throw an exception. — Fᴀʀʜᴀɴ Aɴᴀᴍ
– Fᴀʀʜᴀɴ Aɴᴀᴍ, Commented Dec 21, 2015 at 18:29

Alberto Monteiro · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-21 20:32:21Z

You can use JsonProperty, like this

public enum FilterType { safe, [JsonProperty("unsafe")] @unsafe, // Here lies the problem. invalid }

And then it will work properly

class MyClass { public FilterType filter_type { get; set; } } public class Program { public static void Main() { var myClass = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<MyClass>(json); var itsUnsafe = myClass.filter_type == FilterType.@unsafe; Console.WriteLine(itsUnsafe); } public static string json = @"{ ""filter"": ""...."", ""filter_type"": ""unsafe"", ""included_fields"": [ ""..."", ""...."", ""....."" ] }"; }

The output is:

true

You can see example working here: https://dotnetfiddle.net/6sb3VY

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