Network Programming in .NET

When converting JSON to XML in C# using JsonReaderWriterFactory.CreateJsonReader, then you will find that it’s quite alot stricter at interpreting JSON than Javascript.

For Example { a:”b” } is valid JSON for javascript, but with JsonReaderWriterFactory.CreateJsonReader, it will return an error such as The token ‘”‘ was expected but found ‘a’.

This is some handy code that fixes malformed JSON for use with JsonReaderWriterFactory.CreateJsonReader, If Json is Malformed, i.e. no inverted commas around field names, then this function adds them back in

public static string NormalizeJson(string json)
{
    const string strFindRegex = @"(?[,{]\s*)(?\w+):";
    const string strReplaceRegex = @"${prefix}""${field}"":";
    var strWellFormedJson = Regex.Replace(json, strFindRegex, strReplaceRegex);
    // functions are valid in javascript, but not valid for a JsonReader
    const string strNoFunctionRegex = @"function..\s+{.*}";
    strWellFormedJson = Regex.Replace(strWellFormedJson, strNoFunctionRegex, "false");
    // Json should end with a close-curly-bracket
    if (!strWellFormedJson.EndsWith("}"))
    {
	var intLastCurlyBracket = strWellFormedJson.LastIndexOf("}");
	strWellFormedJson = strWellFormedJson.Substring(0, intLastCurlyBracket + 1);
    }
    return strWellFormedJson;
}