It is fairly straight forward, especially with packages available to simplify a lot of the work. The Nuget Package System.Net.Http
will have the packages you need to create an HttpClient
to Get()
your JSON from the web. I recommend Newtonsoft.Json
to parse JSON into a C# object. And then having the object you just need to set the DataGrid.ItemSource
to be an array of objects of any type for it to generate columns.
A simple example:
First you would define a simple object representation of your JSON data.
For instance if you had the following data:
[
{
"Name":"Test",
"Data": ["Item1","Item2"]
},
{
"Name":"Test 2",
"Data": ["Item3","Item4"]
}
]
You would have to create an equivalent C# representation.
Basically this is a List of objects so:
public class OuterObject : List<InnerObject> {}
The inner object is as follows:
public class InnerObject {
public string Name { get; set; }
public List<string> Data { get; set; }
}
Having the objects defined you can do something like:
HttpClient client = new HttpClient { BaseAddress = new Uri("ADDRESS") };
var json = await client.GetAsync("/ENDPOINT");
JsonSerializer serializer = JsonSerializer.CreateDefault();
using (StringReader reader = new StringReader(json))
{
using (JsonTextReader jsonReader = new JsonTextReader(reader))
{
var result = serializer.Deserialize<OuterObject>(jsonReader);
}
}
Then to access the data in your program you can access it like so:
string name = result[0].Name;
Or set it to a DataGrid's
ItemSource
to have the Data show up magically.
grid1.ItemSource = result;
As long as the result is an array of items it will create a row per item.
You may want to specify which items are shown but that is done by modifying DataGrid.Columns
definitions and setting DataGrid.AutogenerateColumns = false
EDIT: With your data and models
//Just a small change to the Collection
public class BrandsCollection {
private ObservableCollection<Brands> _records;
public ObservableCollection<Brands> records { get => _records; set => _records= value; }
}
And to parse the data...
JsonSerializer serializer = JsonSerializer.CreateDefault();
using (StringReader reader = new StringReader(json))
{
using (JsonTextReader jsonReader = new JsonTextReader(reader))
{
var result = serializer.Deserialize<BrandsCollection>(jsonReader);
}
}
You have to remember to either use the same names as the json labels or use Json Attributes. For more info on that you can go to the official Newtonsoft.Json documentation