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Deserialize JSON to entity?

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Using a webhook, I am able to setup a post image call to do a POST of the entity when the entity in CRM gets updated.

I see the JSON but now on my API, I want to deserialize the JSON to a concrete object of that type - the Entity type.

On the Web API I have, when using Newtonsoft's JSON to deserialize, it does not successfully deserialize it (no errors).

But I can get the JObject, which is not what I want.

How can I do this?

Or if possible, how can I get the entity type (in this case, contact) from the CRM Service by getting it by id so I can get all the data for that contact?

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    Radu Chiribelea 6,667 on at

    Have you tried to use the CrmSvcUtil to generate early bound classes for your CRM entities? Does it work afterwards to deserialize the object to the given entity type?

    See here details on how to use the svcutil tool: docs.microsoft.com/.../create-early-bound-entity-classes-code-generation-tool

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    Community Member on at

    I will try this, but what about custom entities or custom attributes for an entity like contact?

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    Community Member on at

    Generating the classes is around 20MB, which makes sense but how best to reduce this?

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    So trying what you suggested, I still get an error about an unexpected carriage return (\r)

    Here is the code I am using to deserialize to the entity:

    public static Models.Contact DeserializeJsonString(string jsonString)
        {
            //create an instance of generic type object
            Models.Contact obj = new Models.Contact();

            var ms = new MemoryStream(Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(jsonString));
            System.Runtime.Serialization.Json.DataContractJsonSerializer serializer = new System.Runtime.Serialization.Json.DataContractJsonSerializer(obj.GetType());
            obj = (Models.Contact)serializer.ReadObject(ms);
            ms.Close();
            return obj;
        }


    At the line:

    obj = (Models.contact)serializer.ReadObject(ms);

    I get this error:

    System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: 'There was an error deserializing the object of type PoC.Dynamics.Sync.Models.Contact. Encountered invalid character ''.'

    And the json is sent from the webhooks in CRM. Post Image.

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    Radu Chiribelea 6,667 on at

    I think you need to generate your own classes for the CRM entities. I've just remembered, the name of the fields returned by the WEB API is different than what you get when calling the SOAP endpoint (Example: SOAL customerid vs WEB API _customerid_value) so the CrmSvcUtil i think it won't help in this case.

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