How to use IL Merger to merge Newtonsoft.Json.dll with plugin DLL?

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Posted on by Dheeraj Raghav

Hello,

I am calling a third-party API inside my plugin which is registered on an entity's create-event. Now I want to parse the API JSON result in this plugin. To parse it, I am using Newtosoft.Json.dll. Which is not parsing this JSON. I also tried to merge Newtosoft.Json.dll with my plugin DLL using IL merger, but it gives an error while I register this plugin using the plugin registration tool.

I tried the same Newtosoft.Json.dll in a console application. There it is working fine in my system.

Please help me to resolve this issue. Either tell me another way to parse API JSON results or share the right way to merge these DDLs to parse API JSON results.

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Naveen Ganeshe 3,393 User Group Leader on at

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RE: How to use IL Merger to merge Newtonsoft.Json.dll with plugin DLL?

Hello Dheeraj,

You can follow this link: vishalgrade.com/.../
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RE: How to use IL Merger to merge Newtonsoft.Json.dll with plugin DLL?

I use ILMerge-GUI if I need to merge dlls - archive.codeplex.com/
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RE: How to use IL Merger to merge Newtonsoft.Json.dll with plugin DLL?

I followed your instructions. But still, it is not working.

While I am debugging the plugin code it is showing the below mentioned error:

Unhandled Exception: System.ServiceModel.FaultException`1[[Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.OrganizationServiceFault, Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad36****]]: Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=13.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6****' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
Detail: <OrganizationServiceFault xmlns="">schemas.microsoft.com/.../Contracts" xmlns:i="">www.w3.org/.../XMLSchema-instance">
<ActivityId>00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</ActivityId>
<ErrorCode>-2147220970</ErrorCode>
<ErrorDetails xmlns:a="">schemas.datacontract.org/.../System.Collections.Generic">
<KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>
<a:key>CallStack</a:key>
<a:value i:type="b:string" xmlns:b="">www.w3.org/.../XMLSchema"> at SMSTransactionalRequest.SMSTransactionalRequest.Execute(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
at PluginProfiler.Library.PluginAppDomainProxy.ExecuteCore(Stopwatch watch, ProfilerExecutionReport report, Object instance, Object executionParameter)
at PluginProfiler.Library.AppDomainProxy.Execute(ProfilerExecutionConfiguration configuration, ProfilerExecutionReport report)</a:value>
</KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>
</ErrorDetails>
<Message>Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=13.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6****' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.</Message>
<Timestamp>2021-07-19T05:18:10.2455869Z</Timestamp>
<ExceptionRetriable>false</ExceptionRetriable>
<ExceptionSource i:nil="true" />
<InnerFault i:nil="true" />
<OriginalException i:nil="true" />
<TraceText i:nil="true" />
</OrganizationServiceFault>
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RE: How to use IL Merger to merge Newtonsoft.Json.dll with plugin DLL?

Hello

please uninstall current ILMerge package and try to install using command

Reference for more clarification:www.inogic.com/.../
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Guido Preite 54,077 Moderator on at

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RE: How to use IL Merger to merge Newtonsoft.Json.dll with plugin DLL?

I just checked and in my case it works, I don't know where you copied that deserialization code, but this is the one that works for me:

// Deserialize to Object using (MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(Encoding.Default.GetBytes(responseString))) { DataContractJsonSerializer serializer = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(Welcome)); Welcome serializedObject = serializer.ReadObject(memoryStream) as Welcome; }
Dheeraj Raghav on at

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RE: How to use IL Merger to merge Newtonsoft.Json.dll with plugin DLL?

There is no error. But while I write code like mentioned below:

using (MemoryStream DeSerializememoryStream = new MemoryStream())

{

//Json String that we get from web api

string ResponseString = result;

DataContractJsonSerializer serializer = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(Welcome));

//user stream writer to write JSON string data to memory stream

StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(DeSerializememoryStream);

writer.Write(jsonString);

writer.Flush();

DeSerializememoryStream.Position = 0;

//get the Desrialized data in object of type Welcome

Welcome SerializedObject = (Welcome)serializer.ReadObject(DeSerializememoryStream);

}

Then no value coming in the object SerializedObject. It is blank.
Guido Preite 54,077 Moderator on at

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RE: How to use IL Merger to merge Newtonsoft.Json.dll with plugin DLL?

so what doesn't work? which error you are getting now?
Dheeraj Raghav on at

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RE: How to use IL Merger to merge Newtonsoft.Json.dll with plugin DLL?

Sorry, this approach is not working.
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Guido Preite 54,077 Moderator on at

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RE: How to use IL Merger to merge Newtonsoft.Json.dll with plugin DLL?

try to avoid using newtonsoft inside a plugin, you can use DataContractJsonSerializer

here a sample www.crmanswers.net/.../json-and-crm-sandbox-plugins.html