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I'm trying to save the player's inventory as a JSON data but I'm having a problem. I have a class Sword which extends an abstract class Weapon which extends another abstract class called Item. This is what JSON file looks like with the Sword and Armor objects in it:

[
    {
        "category": {
            "type": "Weapon",
            "subtype": "Sword"
        },
        "id": 0,
        "value": 1,
        "name": "Wooden Sword",
        "description": "Sword made out of wood",
        "slug": "wooden_sword",
        "stats": {
            "wear": 100,
            "damage": 5
        }
    },
    {
        "category": {
            "type": "Armor",
            "subtype": "Helmet"
        },
        "id": 1337,
        "value": 1,
        "name": "Steel Helmet",
        "description": "Whatever...",
        "slug": "steel_helmet",
        "stats": {
            "wear": 100,
            "defence": 5,
            "vitality": 3,
            "dexterity": -1
        }
    }
]

How can I parse these objects into their respective C# objects, putting the first entry into a Sword object and the second one into a Helmet object. There will be other types of objects in there too, so it's not limited on these two.

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    \$\begingroup\$ "I have a class Sword which extends abstract class Weapon which extends another abstract class Item." Unrelated to your issue, but... what will you do when you'll want to use a Shield (presumably an 'Armor') as a weapon ("Shield bash")? What will happen when you'll want to use your sword as a defense ("Parry")? Take a look at Composition over inheritance before going too deep into your objects hierarchy. \$\endgroup\$
    – Vaillancourt ♦
    Commented Aug 11, 2017 at 12:56
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    \$\begingroup\$ That's a really good advice, thank you. I'll certainly look into it. \$\endgroup\$
    – Irakli Chkuaseli
    Commented Aug 11, 2017 at 13:11

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Directly converting these objects using JSONUtil won't work in this case.

What you could do instead is parse it into an intermediate data-structure first. Create a struct which directly mimics the structure of that JSON code (with a category variable which is another struct with the fields type and subtype).

You can then use the data in that structure to instantiate the actual objects of the correct types.

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