StringWalker class:<\/p>\n
\r\npublic class StringWalker\r\n{\r\n private readonly string _s;\r\n\r\n public int Index { get; private set; }\r\n public bool IsEscaped { get; private set; }\r\n public char CurrentChar { get; private set; }\r\n\r\n public StringWalker(string s)\r\n {\r\n _s = s;\r\n this.Index = -1;\r\n }\r\n\r\n public bool MoveNext()\r\n {\r\n if (this.Index == _s.Length - 1)\r\n return false;\r\n\r\n if (IsEscaped == false)\r\n IsEscaped = CurrentChar == '\\\\';\r\n else\r\n IsEscaped = false;\r\n this.Index++;\r\n CurrentChar = _s[Index];\r\n return true;\r\n }\r\n};\r\n<\/pre>\nIndentWriter class:<\/p>\n
\r\npublic class IndentWriter\r\n{\r\n private readonly StringBuilder _result = new StringBuilder();\r\n private int _indentLevel;\r\n\r\n public void Indent()\r\n {\r\n _indentLevel++;\r\n }\r\n\r\n public void UnIndent()\r\n {\r\n if (_indentLevel > 0)\r\n _indentLevel--;\r\n }\r\n\r\n public void WriteLine(string line)\r\n {\r\n _result.AppendLine(CreateIndent() + line);\r\n }\r\n\r\n private string CreateIndent()\r\n {\r\n StringBuilder indent = new StringBuilder();\r\n for (int i = 0; i < _indentLevel; i++)\r\n indent.Append(" ");\r\n return indent.ToString();\r\n }\r\n\r\n public override string ToString()\r\n {\r\n return _result.ToString();\r\n }\r\n};\r\n<\/pre>\nJSON formatter class:<\/p>\n
\r\n\r\npublic class JsonFormatter\r\n{\r\n private readonly StringWalker _walker;\r\n private readonly IndentWriter _writer = new IndentWriter();\r\n private readonly StringBuilder _currentLine = new StringBuilder();\r\n private bool _quoted;\r\n\r\n public JsonFormatter(string json)\r\n {\r\n _walker = new StringWalker(json);\r\n ResetLine();\r\n }\r\n\r\n public void ResetLine()\r\n {\r\n _currentLine.Length = 0;\r\n }\r\n\r\n public string Format()\r\n {\r\n while (MoveNextChar())\r\n {\r\n if (this._quoted == false && this.IsOpenBracket())\r\n {\r\n this.WriteCurrentLine();\r\n this.AddCharToLine();\r\n this.WriteCurrentLine();\r\n _writer.Indent();\r\n }\r\n else if (this._quoted == false && this.IsCloseBracket())\r\n {\r\n this.WriteCurrentLine();\r\n _writer.UnIndent();\r\n this.AddCharToLine();\r\n }\r\n else if (this._quoted == false && this.IsColon())\r\n {\r\n this.AddCharToLine();\r\n this.WriteCurrentLine();\r\n }\r\n else\r\n {\r\n AddCharToLine();\r\n }\r\n }\r\n this.WriteCurrentLine();\r\n return _writer.ToString();\r\n }\r\n\r\n private bool MoveNextChar()\r\n {\r\n bool success = _walker.MoveNext();\r\n if (this.IsApostrophe())\r\n {\r\n this._quoted = !_quoted;\r\n }\r\n return success;\r\n }\r\n\r\n public bool IsApostrophe()\r\n {\r\n return this._walker.CurrentChar == '"' && this._walker.IsEscaped == false;\r\n }\r\n\r\n public bool IsOpenBracket()\r\n {\r\n return this._walker.CurrentChar == '{'\r\n || this._walker.CurrentChar == '[';\r\n }\r\n\r\n public bool IsCloseBracket()\r\n {\r\n return this._walker.CurrentChar == '}'\r\n || this._walker.CurrentChar == ']';\r\n }\r\n\r\n public bool IsColon()\r\n {\r\n return this._walker.CurrentChar == ',';\r\n }\r\n\r\n private void AddCharToLine()\r\n {\r\n this._currentLine.Append(_walker.CurrentChar);\r\n }\r\n\r\n private void WriteCurrentLine()\r\n {\r\n string line = this._currentLine.ToString().Trim();\r\n if (line.Length > 0)\r\n {\r\n _writer.WriteLine(line);\r\n }\r\n this.ResetLine();\r\n }\r\n};\r\n<\/pre>\nFew samples:<\/p>\n
\r\nConsole.WriteLine(new JsonFormatter(\r\n\t@"{""parameter"" : ""value"" , { ""parameter2"" : ""value2"" },{ ""parameter3"" : ""value3"" } }").Format());\r\nConsole.WriteLine(new JsonFormatter(\r\n\t@"{""parameter"":[""value1"",""value2"",""value3""] }").Format());\r\nConsole.WriteLine(new JsonFormatter(\r\n\t@"{""parameter"": ""value with {brackets}"" }").Format());\r\nConsole.WriteLine(new JsonFormatter(\r\n @"{ ""hello"" : ""value with quotes \\""{brackets} and back slash: \\\\"" }").Format());\r\n<\/pre>\n…and results:<\/p>\n
\r\n{\r\n "parameter" : "value" ,\r\n {\r\n "parameter2" : "value2"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n "parameter3" : "value3"\r\n }\r\n}\r\n\r\n{\r\n "parameter":\r\n [\r\n "value1",\r\n "value2",\r\n "value3"\r\n ]\r\n}\r\n\r\n{\r\n "parameter": "value with {brackets}"\r\n}\r\n\r\n{\r\n "hello" : "value with quotes \\"{brackets} and back slash: \\\\"\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"StringWalker class: public class StringWalker { private readonly string _s; public int Index { get; private set; } public bool IsEscaped { get; private set; } public char CurrentChar { get; private set; } public StringWalker(string s) { _s = s; this.Index = -1; } public bool MoveNext() { if (this.Index == _s.Length – 1) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,31],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-c","tag-json"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3898,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/3898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}