MiniJson: Unable to Deserialize WWW response

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1

I’m trying to deserialize a response to a WWW request like this:

    IEnumerator requestScores(int level)
    {
        WWW jsonScores = new WWW(requestScoresURL + level);
        yield return jsonScores; //Wait for download to complete
        float elapsedTime = 0.0f;

        while (!jsonScores.isDone)
        {
            elapsedTime += Time.deltaTime;

            if (elapsedTime >= 10.0f) break;

            yield return null;
        }

        if (!jsonScores.isDone || !string.IsNullOrEmpty(jsonScores.error))
        {
            Debug.LogError(string.Format("Fail Whale!

{0}", jsonScores.error));
yield break;
}

        string response = jsonScores.text;

        Debug.Log(elapsedTime + " : " + response);

        Dictionary<string, object> search = Json.Deserialize(response) as Dictionary<string, object>;
        //(1) IDictionary dict = (IDictionary) Json.Deserialize(response);
        foreach ( KeyValuePair <string, object> entry in search)
        {
            Debug.Log("key: " + entry.Key + ", value:" + entry.Value);
            // do something with entry.Value or entry.Key
        }
    }

So I’m getting a proper “jsonScores.text” but Dictionary “search” comes out as null.

If I use IDictionary ( Comment //(1) ) I get:
“InvalidCastException: Cannot cast from source type to destination type.”

2

Ok I found what was wrong in there, first I found out that Deserialize only worked with System.Object, then as I was getting multiple rows the object returned was an array of dictionaries instead of a single one.

This is the code that worked:

Dictionary<string, object>[] dictArray;
...
    
System.Object obj = JsonReader.Deserialize(json) as System.Object;
dictArray = (Dictionary<string, object>[]) obj; 
foreach (Dictionary<string, object> row in dictArray)
{
    // Do whatever with row
}