private static LinkItemCollection Parse(string json)
{
LinkItemCollection coll = new LinkItemCollection();
Dictionary <string, object>[] jsonItems = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject <Dictionary <string, object>[]>(json);
LinkItemBase[] arrLinkItemBase = new LinkItemBase[jsonItems.Length];
//Execute this in parallel if possible to save time with json serialization/deserization for child items
Parallel.ForEach(jsonItems, (x, state, index) =>
{
Dictionary <string, object> dic = (Dictionary <string, object>)x;
string linkType = dic["LinkTypeString"].ToString();
//HACK: Find a better way of doing this - we dont want to have to serialize/deserialize this again!
//Need a good way of initially getting the array elements
string json2 = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(dic);
LinkItemBase itemBase = null;
if (linkType == "Image")
{
itemBase = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject <ImageItem>(json2);
}
else if (linkType == "Internal")
{
itemBase = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject <InternalLinkItem>(json2);
}
else if (linkType == "External")
{
itemBase = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject <ExternalLinkItem>(json2);
}
else if (linkType == "Document")
{
itemBase = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject <DocumentItem>(json2);
}
else
{
if (PluginList != null)
{
ILinkItemCollectionPlugin plugin = PluginList.Find(y => y.Name == linkType);
if (plugin != null)
{
itemBase = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json2, plugin.PluginType) as LinkItemBase;
if (itemBase == null)
{
throw new Exception("The following json string for linkType " + linkType + " could not be parsed: " + json2);
}
}
}
}
itemBase.SortOrder = (int)index;
arrLinkItemBase[index] = itemBase;
});
//Add the array items to the LinkItemCollection
coll.AddRange(arrLinkItemBase);
return(coll);
}