Deserialize JSON to C# Classes

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Your problem is twofold:

  1. You don’t have a class defined at the root level. The class structure needs to match the entire JSON, you can’t just deserialize from the middle.
  2. Whenever you have an object whose keys can change, you need to use a Dictionary<string, T>. A regular class won’t work for that; neither will a List<T>.

Make your classes like this:

class RootObject
{
    [JsonProperty("results")]
    public Results Results { get; set; }
}

class Results
{
    [JsonProperty("jobcodes")]
    public Dictionary<string, JobCode> JobCodes { get; set; }
}

class JobCode
{
    [JsonProperty("_status_code")]
    public string StatusCode { get; set; }
    [JsonProperty("_status_message")]
    public string StatusMessage { get; set; }
    [JsonProperty("id")]
    public string Id { get; set; }
    [JsonProperty("name")]
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

Then, deserialize like this:

RootObject obj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<RootObject>(json);

Working demo here

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