about render a JSON string by dotliquid

[Jiannan Wu]

I've been rendering strongly typed models in templates. But now I need to render a JSON string. I cant convert the json to an object because it is near impossible to convert json toanonymous type.but can convert to a dynamic object easily,but DotLiquid cannot render a dynamic, so converting to dynamic is also useless. 

Are there any extentions out there for .net that can do this? 

For eg.

string json = "{ Name: \"Some Name\" }";

This goes to the template renderer;

<p> Hello {{ Name }} </p>

becomes:

<p>Hello Some Name</p>

[Michael Elson]

Hi Jiannan, 

Did you ever find a solution for rendering JSON in DotLiquid?  Curious to know how you solved this?

[Mike Bridge]

You can convert JSON to nested Lists and Dictionaries:

        [Test]

        public void Liquid_Should_Parse_Nested_Object()

        {

            const string testIt = "Test It";

            var nestedDict = new Dictionary<String, Object> {

                {"nested", testIt}

            };

           var rootDict = new Dictionary<String, Object> {

                {"root", nestedDict}

            };

            Template template = Template.Parse("{{root.nested}}");

            var liquidHash = Hash.FromDictionary(rootDict);

            Assert.That(testIt, Is.EqualTo(template.Render(liquidHash)));

        }

        [Test]

        public void Liquid_Should_Parse_Nested_Array()

        {

            const string testIt = "Test It";

            var nestedArray = new List<String> { testIt };

            var rootDict = new Dictionary<String, Object> {

                {"root", nestedArray}

            };

            Template template = Template.Parse("{% for item in root %}{{ item }}{% endfor %} ");

            var liquidHash = Hash.FromDictionary(rootDict);

            Assert.That(testIt, Is.EqualTo(template.Render(liquidHash)));