How to return unparsed string instead of DateTime from JProperty

Asked Oct 16 '14 at 02:00

Active Oct 16 '14 at 02:13

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In MediaWiki's old query-continue style, it passes you a bunch of values that you're supposed to reflect back to MediaWiki unaltered. For example:

"query-continue": {
    "deletedrevs": {
        "drstart": "2014-09-06T20:14:15Z"
    }
}

How do I get the value as the exact string that was sent rather than a DateTime value? Asking for (string)prop.Value converts the object to a DateTime first and only then to a string, which results in returning the wrong date format.

The only thing I'm coming up with right now is checking to see if the value of the JProperty is a date, then converting the date back into ISO 8601, but considering that's how it was sent in the first place, that seems rather kludgy.

edited Oct 16 '14 at 02:13

Andrew Whitaker

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asked Oct 16 '14 at 02:00

Are you deserializing into a C# class? – Andrew Whitaker Oct 16 '14 at 02:16
A C# Dictionary, if you want to get technical, but yes. – Oct 16 '14 at 02:26
Is [this](http://stackoverflow.com/q/11856694/497356) a duplicate? – Andrew Whitaker Oct 16 '14 at 02:29
Yup, that's exactly what I was looking for and couldn't find. Thanks! – Oct 16 '14 at 02:31

How to return unparsed string instead of DateTime from JProperty

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