JsonDataSource.LoadSchema(Type) Method

Creates the data source schema from the provided type.

Namespace: DevExpress.DataAccess.Json

Assembly: DevExpress.DataAccess.v25.1.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.DataAccess

Declaration

C#

public JsonSchemaNode LoadSchema(
    Type type
)

VB.NET

Public Function LoadSchema(
    type As Type
) As JsonSchemaNode

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
type	Type	The type used to create the schema.

Returns

Type	Description
JsonSchemaNode	The created data source schema.

Remarks

Use this method to specify a JSON data source schema without the need to read data from the endpoint. This method creates a data source field for each public property from the specified type parameter. Private, protected, and internal properties are ignored. A property’s type is used to specify the field type.

Note

Members of the specified type should not be of the same type (or an inherited type) to avoid the stack overflow exception.

Example

The code sample below creates a new JSON data source and uses the JsonDataObject and Customer types to specify the data source schema.

C#

using DevExpress.DataAccess.Json;
// ...
public class JsonDataObject
{
    public Customer[] Customers { get; set; }
}
public class Customer
{
    // A public property shown in the data source field list.
    public string CompanyName { get; set; }
    // A private property not shown in the data source field list.
    private string ContactName { get; set; }
}
JsonDataSource dataSource = new JsonDataSource();
dataSource.JsonSource = new UriJsonSource()
{
    Uri = new Uri(@"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DevExpress-Examples/DataSources/master/JSON/customers.json")
};
// Create the data source schema from the JsonDataObject type.
dataSource.Schema = dataSource.LoadSchema(typeof(JsonDataObject));

VB.NET

Imports DevExpress.DataAccess.Json
' ...
Public Class JsonDataObject
    Public Property Customers() As Customer()
End Class
Public Class Customer
    ' A public property shown in the data source field list.
    Public Property CompanyName() As String
    ' A private property not shown in the data source field list.
    Private Property ContactName() As String
End Class
Dim dataSource As New JsonDataSource()
dataSource.JsonSource = New UriJsonSource() With {.Uri = New Uri("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DevExpress-Examples/DataSources/master/JSON/customers.json")}
' Create the data source schema from the JsonDataObject type.
dataSource.Schema = dataSource.LoadSchema(GetType(JsonDataObject))