Formateador JSON en C #?

Buscando una función que tome una stringde Json como entrada y la formatee con saltos de línea y sangrías. La validación sería una ventaja, pero no es necesaria, y no necesito analizarla en un objeto ni nada.

¿Alguien sabe de una biblioteca así?

Entrada de muestra:

{"status":"OK", "results":[ {"types":[ "locality", "political"], "formatted_address":"New York, NY, USA", "address_components":[ {"long_name":"New York", "short_name":"New York", "types":[ "locality", "political"]}, {"long_name":"New York", "short_name":"New York", "types":[ "administrative_area_level_2", "political"]}, {"long_name":"New York", "short_name":"NY", "types":[ "administrative_area_level_1", "political"]}, {"long_name":"United States", "short_name":"US", "types":[ "country", "political"]}], "geometry":{"location":{"lat":40.7143528, "lng":-74.0059731}, "location_type":"APPROXIMATE", "viewport":{"southwest":{"lat":40.5788964, "lng":-74.2620919}, "northeast":{"lat":40.8495342, "lng":-73.7498543}}, "bounds":{"southwest":{"lat":40.4773990, "lng":-74.2590900}, "northeast":{"lat":40.9175770, "lng":-73.7002720}}}}]} 

Actualicé la versión anterior, ahora debería admitir valores sin comillas como enteros y booleanos.

Refactoricé la versión anterior y obtuve la versión final: el código es más corto y más limpio. Solo requiere un método de extensión. Lo más importante: se corrigieron algunos errores.

class JsonHelper
{
    private const string INDENT_STRING = "    ";
    public static string FormatJson(string str)
    {
        var indent = 0;
        var quoted = false;
        var sb = new StringBuilder();
        for (var i = 0; i < str.Length; i++)
        {
            var ch = str[i];
            switch (ch)
            {
                case '{':
                case '[':
                    sb.Append(ch);
                    if (!quoted)
                    {
                        sb.AppendLine();
                        Enumerable.Range(0, ++indent).ForEach(item => sb.Append(INDENT_STRING));
                    }
                    break;
                case '}':
                case ']':
                    if (!quoted)
                    {
                        sb.AppendLine();
                        Enumerable.Range(0, --indent).ForEach(item => sb.Append(INDENT_STRING));
                    }
                    sb.Append(ch);
                    break;
                case '"':
                    sb.Append(ch);
                    bool escaped = false;
                    var index = i;
                    while (index > 0 && str[--index] == '\\')
                        escaped = !escaped;
                    if (!escaped)
                        quoted = !quoted;
                    break;
                case ',':
                    sb.Append(ch);
                    if (!quoted)
                    {
                        sb.AppendLine();
                        Enumerable.Range(0, indent).ForEach(item => sb.Append(INDENT_STRING));
                    }
                    break;
                case ':':
                    sb.Append(ch);
                    if (!quoted)
                        sb.Append(" ");
                    break;
                default:
                    sb.Append(ch);
                    break;
            }
        }
        return sb.ToString();
    }
}

static class Extensions
{
    public static void ForEach<T>(this IEnumerable<T> ie, Action<T> action)
    {
        foreach (var i in ie)
        {
            action(i);
        }
    }
}

También puede usar la biblioteca Newtonsoft.Json para esto y llamar a SerializeObject con la enumeración Formatting.Indented -

var x = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(jsonString, Formatting.Indented);

Documentación: serializar un objeto

Actualización -

Intenté de nuevo. Estoy bastante seguro de que esto solía funcionar, tal vez cambió en una versión posterior o tal vez solo estoy imaginando cosas. De todos modos, según los comentarios a continuación, no funciona como se esperaba. Sin embargo, estos sí (solo probados en linqpad). El primero es de los comentarios, el segundo es un ejemplo que encontré en otra parte de SO -

void Main()
{
    //Example 1
    var t = "{\"x\":57,\"y\":57.0,\"z\":\"Yes\"}";
    var obj = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(t); 
    var f = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(obj, Newtonsoft.Json.Formatting.Indented);
    Console.WriteLine(f);

    //Example 2
    JToken jt = JToken.Parse(t);
    string formatted = jt.ToString(Newtonsoft.Json.Formatting.Indented);
    Console.WriteLine(formatted);

    //Example 2 in one line -
    Console.WriteLine(JToken.Parse(t).ToString(Newtonsoft.Json.Formatting.Indented));
}

Muestra más corta para la biblioteca json.net.

using Newtonsoft.Json;

private static string format_json(string json)
{
    dynamic parsedJson = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json);
    return JsonConvert.SerializeObject(parsedJson, Formatting.Indented);
}

PD: puede envolver el texto json formateado con la etiqueta para imprimir tal como está en la página html.

Aquí hay una versión compacta de un embellecedor JSON.

private const string INDENT_STRING = "    ";

static string FormatJson(string json) {

    int indentation = 0;
    int quoteCount = 0;
    var result = 
        from ch in json
        let quotes = ch == '"' ? quoteCount++ : quoteCount
        let lineBreak = ch == ',' && quotes % 2 == 0 ? ch + Environment.NewLine +  String.Concat(Enumerable.Repeat(INDENT_STRING, indentation)) : null
        let openChar = ch == '{' || ch == '[' ? ch + Environment.NewLine + String.Concat(Enumerable.Repeat(INDENT_STRING, ++indentation)) : ch.ToString()
        let closeChar = ch == '}' || ch == ']' ? Environment.NewLine + String.Concat(Enumerable.Repeat(INDENT_STRING, --indentation)) + ch : ch.ToString()
        select lineBreak == null    
                    ? openChar.Length > 1 
                        ? openChar 
                        : closeChar
                    : lineBreak;

    return String.Concat(result);
}

Salidas:

 {
    "status":"OK",
     "results":[
         {
            "types":[
                 "locality",
                 "political"
            ],
             "formatted_address":"New York, NY, USA",
             "address_components":[
                 {
                    "long_name":"New York",
                     "short_name":"New York",
                     "types":[
                         "locality",
                         "political"
                    ]
                },
                 {
                    "long_name":"New York",
                     "short_name":"New York",
                     "types":[
                         "administrative_area_level_2",
                         "political"
                    ]
                },
                 {
                    "long_name":"New York",
                     "short_name":"NY",
                     "types":[
                         "administrative_area_level_1",
                         "political"
                    ]
                },
                 {
                    "long_name":"United States",
                     "short_name":"US",
                     "types":[
                         "country",
                         "political"
                    ]
                }
            ],
             "geometry":{
                "location":{
                    "lat":40.7143528,
                     "lng":-74.0059731
                },
                 "location_type":"APPROXIMATE",
                 "viewport":{
                    "southwest":{
                        "lat":40.5788964,
                         "lng":-74.2620919
                    },
                     "northeast":{
                        "lat":40.8495342,
                         "lng":-73.7498543
                    }
                },
                 "bounds":{
                    "southwest":{
                        "lat":40.4773990,
                         "lng":-74.2590900
                    },
                     "northeast":{
                        "lat":40.9175770,
                         "lng":-73.7002720
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

Incluso uno más simple que acabo de escribir:

public class JsonFormatter
{
    public static string Indent = "    ";

    public static string PrettyPrint(string input)
    {
        var output = new StringBuilder(input.Length * 2);
        char? quote = null;
        int depth = 0;

        for(int i=0; i<input.Length; ++i)
        {
            char ch = input[i];

            switch (ch)
            {
                case '{':
                case '[':
                    output.Append(ch);
                    if (!quote.HasValue)
                    {
                        output.AppendLine();
                        output.Append(Indent.Repeat(++depth));
                    }
                    break;
                case '}':
                case ']':
                    if (quote.HasValue)  
                        output.Append(ch);
                    else
                    {
                        output.AppendLine();
                        output.Append(Indent.Repeat(--depth));
                        output.Append(ch);
                    }
                    break;
                case '"':
                case '\'':
                    output.Append(ch);
                    if (quote.HasValue)
                    {
                        if (!output.IsEscaped(i))
                            quote = null;
                    }
                    else quote = ch;
                    break;
                case ',':
                    output.Append(ch);
                    if (!quote.HasValue)
                    {
                        output.AppendLine();
                        output.Append(Indent.Repeat(depth));
                    }
                    break;
                case ':':
                    if (quote.HasValue) output.Append(ch);
                    else output.Append(" : ");
                    break;
                default:
                    if (quote.HasValue || !char.IsWhiteSpace(ch)) 
                        output.Append(ch);
                    break;
            }
        }

        return output.ToString();
    }
}

Extensiones necesarias:

    public static string Repeat(this string str, int count)
    {
        return new StringBuilder().Insert(0, str, count).ToString();
    }

    public static bool IsEscaped(this string str, int index)
    {
        bool escaped = false;
        while (index > 0 && str[--index] == '\\') escaped = !escaped;
        return escaped;
    }

    public static bool IsEscaped(this StringBuilder str, int index)
    {
        return str.ToString().IsEscaped(index);
    }

Salida de muestra:

{
    "status" : "OK",
    "results" : [
        {
            "types" : [
                "locality",
                "political"
            ],
            "formatted_address" : "New York, NY, USA",
            "address_components" : [
                {
                    "long_name" : "New York",
                    "short_name" : "New York",
                    "types" : [
                        "locality",
                        "political"
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "long_name" : "New York",
                    "short_name" : "New York",
                    "types" : [
                        "administrative_area_level_2",
                        "political"
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "long_name" : "New York",
                    "short_name" : "NY",
                    "types" : [
                        "administrative_area_level_1",
                        "political"
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "long_name" : "United States",
                    "short_name" : "US",
                    "types" : [
                        "country",
                        "political"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "geometry" : {
                "location" : {
                    "lat" : 40.7143528,
                    "lng" : -74.0059731
                },
                "location_type" : "APPROXIMATE",
                "viewport" : {
                    "southwest" : {
                        "lat" : 40.5788964,
                        "lng" : -74.2620919
                    },
                    "northeast" : {
                        "lat" : 40.8495342,
                        "lng" : -73.7498543
                    }
                },
                "bounds" : {
                    "southwest" : {
                        "lat" : 40.4773990,
                        "lng" : -74.2590900
                    },
                    "northeast" : {
                        "lat" : 40.9175770,
                        "lng" : -73.7002720
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

Ya hay un montón de excelentes respuestas aquí que usan Newtonsoft.JSON , pero aquí hay una más que se usa JObject.Parseen combinación con ToString(), ya que aún no se ha mencionado:

var jObj = Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject.Parse(json);
var formatted = jObj.ToString(Newtonsoft.Json.Formatting.Indented);

Me impresionó mucho el formateador JSON compacto de Vince Panuccio .
Aquí hay una versión mejorada que ahora uso:

public static string FormatJson(string json, string indent = "  ")
{
    var indentation = 0;
    var quoteCount = 0;
    var escapeCount = 0;

    var result =
        from ch in json ?? string.Empty
        let escaped = (ch == '\\' ? escapeCount++ : escapeCount > 0 ? escapeCount-- : escapeCount) > 0
        let quotes = ch == '"' && !escaped ? quoteCount++ : quoteCount
        let unquoted = quotes % 2 == 0
        let colon = ch == ':' && unquoted ? ": " : null
        let nospace = char.IsWhiteSpace(ch) && unquoted ? string.Empty : null
        let lineBreak = ch == ',' && unquoted ? ch + Environment.NewLine + string.Concat(Enumerable.Repeat(indent, indentation)) : null
        let openChar = (ch == '{' || ch == '[') && unquoted ? ch + Environment.NewLine + string.Concat(Enumerable.Repeat(indent, ++indentation)) : ch.ToString()
        let closeChar = (ch == '}' || ch == ']') && unquoted ? Environment.NewLine + string.Concat(Enumerable.Repeat(indent, --indentation)) + ch : ch.ToString()
        select colon ?? nospace ?? lineBreak ?? (
            openChar.Length > 1 ? openChar : closeChar
        );

    return string.Concat(result);
}

Soluciona los siguientes problemas:

1. Secuencias de escape dentro de cadenas
2. Faltan espacios después de los dos puntos
3. Espacios adicionales después de las comas (o en cualquier otro lugar)
4. Tirantes cuadrados y rizados dentro de cuerdas
5. No falla en la entrada nula

Salidas:

{
  "status": "OK",
  "results": [
    {
      "types": [
        "locality",
        "political"
      ],
      "formatted_address": "New York, NY, USA",
      "address_components": [
        {
          "long_name": "New York",
          "short_name": "New York",
          "types": [
            "locality",
            "political"
          ]
        },
        {
          "long_name": "New York",
          "short_name": "New York",
          "types": [
            "administrative_area_level_2",
            "political"
          ]
        },
        {
          "long_name": "New York",
          "short_name": "NY",
          "types": [
            "administrative_area_level_1",
            "political"
          ]
        },
        {
          "long_name": "United States",
          "short_name": "US",
          "types": [
            "country",
            "political"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "geometry": {
        "location": {
          "lat": 40.7143528,
          "lng": -74.0059731
        },
        "location_type": "APPROXIMATE",
        "viewport": {
          "southwest": {
            "lat": 40.5788964,
            "lng": -74.2620919
          },
          "northeast": {
            "lat": 40.8495342,
            "lng": -73.7498543
          }
        },
        "bounds": {
          "southwest": {
            "lat": 40.4773990,
            "lng": -74.2590900
          },
          "northeast": {
            "lat": 40.9175770,
            "lng": -73.7002720
          }
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

La razón principal para escribir su propia función es que los frameworks JSON generalmente realizan el análisis de cadenas en tipos .net y las convierten nuevamente en cadenas, lo que puede resultar en la pérdida de cadenas originales. Por ejemplo, 0.0002 se convierte en 2E-4

No publico mi función (es bastante igual que otras aquí) pero aquí están los casos de prueba

using System.IO;

using Newtonsoft.Json;

using NUnit.Framework;

namespace json_formatter.tests
{
    [TestFixture]
    internal class FormatterTests
    {
        [Test]
        public void CompareWithNewtonsofJson()
        {
            string file = Path.Combine(TestContext.CurrentContext.TestDirectory, "json", "minified.txt");

            string json = File.ReadAllText(file);

            string newton = JsonPrettify(json);
            // Double space are indent symbols which newtonsoft framework uses
            string my = new Formatter("  ").Format(json);

            Assert.AreEqual(newton, my);
        }

        [Test]
        public void EmptyArrayMustNotBeFormatted()
        {
            var input = "{\"na{me\": []}";
            var expected = "{\r\n\t\"na{me\": []\r\n}";

            Assert.AreEqual(expected, new Formatter().Format(input));
        }

        [Test]
        public void EmptyObjectMustNotBeFormatted()
        {
            var input = "{\"na{me\": {}}";
            var expected = "{\r\n\t\"na{me\": {}\r\n}";

            Assert.AreEqual(expected, new Formatter().Format(input));
        }

        [Test]
        public void MustAddLinebreakAfterBraces()
        {
            var input = "{\"name\": \"value\"}";
            var expected = "{\r\n\t\"name\": \"value\"\r\n}";

            Assert.AreEqual(expected, new Formatter().Format(input));
        }

        [Test]
        public void MustFormatNestedObject()
        {
            var input = "{\"na{me\":\"val}ue\", \"name1\": {\"name2\":\"value\"}}";
            var expected = "{\r\n\t\"na{me\": \"val}ue\",\r\n\t\"name1\": {\r\n\t\t\"name2\": \"value\"\r\n\t}\r\n}";

            Assert.AreEqual(expected, new Formatter().Format(input));
        }

        [Test]
        public void MustHandleArray()
        {
            var input = "{\"name\": \"value\", \"name2\":[\"a\", \"b\", \"c\"]}";
            var expected = "{\r\n\t\"name\": \"value\",\r\n\t\"name2\": [\r\n\t\t\"a\",\r\n\t\t\"b\",\r\n\t\t\"c\"\r\n\t]\r\n}";
            Assert.AreEqual(expected, new Formatter().Format(input));
        }

        [Test]
        public void MustHandleArrayOfObject()
        {
            var input = "{\"name\": \"value\", \"name2\":[{\"na{me\":\"val}ue\"}, {\"nam\\\"e2\":\"val\\\\\\\"ue\"}]}";
            var expected =
                "{\r\n\t\"name\": \"value\",\r\n\t\"name2\": [\r\n\t\t{\r\n\t\t\t\"na{me\": \"val}ue\"\r\n\t\t},\r\n\t\t{\r\n\t\t\t\"nam\\\"e2\": \"val\\\\\\\"ue\"\r\n\t\t}\r\n\t]\r\n}";
            Assert.AreEqual(expected, new Formatter().Format(input));
        }

        [Test]
        public void MustHandleEscapedString()
        {
            var input = "{\"na{me\":\"val}ue\", \"name1\": {\"nam\\\"e2\":\"val\\\\\\\"ue\"}}";
            var expected = "{\r\n\t\"na{me\": \"val}ue\",\r\n\t\"name1\": {\r\n\t\t\"nam\\\"e2\": \"val\\\\\\\"ue\"\r\n\t}\r\n}";
            Assert.AreEqual(expected, new Formatter().Format(input));
        }

        [Test]
        public void MustIgnoreEscapedQuotesInsideString()
        {
            var input = "{\"na{me\\\"\": \"val}ue\"}";
            var expected = "{\r\n\t\"na{me\\\"\": \"val}ue\"\r\n}";

            Assert.AreEqual(expected, new Formatter().Format(input));
        }

        [TestCase(" ")]
        [TestCase("\"")]
        [TestCase("{")]
        [TestCase("}")]
        [TestCase("[")]
        [TestCase("]")]
        [TestCase(":")]
        [TestCase(",")]
        public void MustIgnoreSpecialSymbolsInsideString(string symbol)
        {
            string input = "{\"na" + symbol + "me\": \"val" + symbol + "ue\"}";
            string expected = "{\r\n\t\"na" + symbol + "me\": \"val" + symbol + "ue\"\r\n}";

            Assert.AreEqual(expected, new Formatter().Format(input));
        }

        [Test]
        public void StringEndsWithEscapedBackslash()
        {
            var input = "{\"na{me\\\\\": \"val}ue\"}";
            var expected = "{\r\n\t\"na{me\\\\\": \"val}ue\"\r\n}";

            Assert.AreEqual(expected, new Formatter().Format(input));
        }

        private static string PrettifyUsingNewtosoft(string json)
        {
            using (var stringReader = new StringReader(json))
            using (var stringWriter = new StringWriter())
            {
                var jsonReader = new JsonTextReader(stringReader);
                var jsonWriter = new JsonTextWriter(stringWriter)
                                {
                                    Formatting = Formatting.Indented
                                };
                jsonWriter.WriteToken(jsonReader);
                return stringWriter.ToString();
            }
        }
    }
}

Es necesario para saltar \ry \nen PrettyPrint(). La salida parece graciosa si ya hay algunos crlf presentes (o la fuente ya estaba formateada).

Lo arreglé ... algo.

public class JsonFormatter
{
    #region class members
    const string Space = " ";
    const int DefaultIndent = 0;
    const string Indent = Space + Space + Space + Space;
    static readonly string NewLine = Environment.NewLine;
    #endregion

    private enum JsonContextType
    {
        Object, Array
    }

    static void BuildIndents(int indents, StringBuilder output)
    {
        indents += DefaultIndent;
        for (; indents > 0; indents--)
            output.Append(Indent);
    }


    bool inDoubleString = false;
    bool inSingleString = false;
    bool inVariableAssignment = false;
    char prevChar = '\0';

    Stack<JsonContextType> context = new Stack<JsonContextType>();

    bool InString()
    {
        return inDoubleString || inSingleString;
    }

    public string PrettyPrint(string input)
    {
        var output = new StringBuilder(input.Length * 2);
        char c;

        for (int i = 0; i < input.Length; i++)
        {
            c = input[i];

            switch (c)
            {
                case '{':
                    if (!InString())
                    {
                        if (inVariableAssignment || (context.Count > 0 && context.Peek() != JsonContextType.Array))
                        {
                            output.Append(NewLine);
                            BuildIndents(context.Count, output);
                        }
                        output.Append(c);
                        context.Push(JsonContextType.Object);
                        output.Append(NewLine);
                        BuildIndents(context.Count, output);
                    }
                    else
                        output.Append(c);

                    break;

                case '}':
                    if (!InString())
                    {
                        output.Append(NewLine);
                        context.Pop();
                        BuildIndents(context.Count, output);
                        output.Append(c);
                    }
                    else
                        output.Append(c);

                    break;

                case '[':
                    output.Append(c);

                    if (!InString())
                        context.Push(JsonContextType.Array);

                    break;

                case ']':
                    if (!InString())
                    {
                        output.Append(c);
                        context.Pop();
                    }
                    else
                        output.Append(c);

                    break;

                case '=':
                    output.Append(c);
                    break;

                case ',':
                    output.Append(c);

                    if (!InString() && context.Peek() != JsonContextType.Array)
                    {
                        BuildIndents(context.Count, output);
                        output.Append(NewLine);
                        BuildIndents(context.Count, output);
                        inVariableAssignment = false;
                    }

                    break;

                case '\'':
                    if (!inDoubleString && prevChar != '\\')
                        inSingleString = !inSingleString;

                    output.Append(c);
                    break;

                case ':':
                    if (!InString())
                    {
                        inVariableAssignment = true;
                        output.Append(Space);
                        output.Append(c);
                        output.Append(Space);
                    }
                    else
                        output.Append(c);

                    break;

                case '"':
                    if (!inSingleString && prevChar != '\\')
                        inDoubleString = !inDoubleString;

                    output.Append(c);
                    break;
                case ' ':
                    if (InString())
                        output.Append(c);
                    break;

                default:
                    output.Append(c);
                    break;
            }
            prevChar = c;
        }

        return output.ToString();
    }
}

crédito [enlace muerto]

Como señaló benjymous , puede usar Newtonsoft.Json con un objeto temporal y deserializar / serializar.

var obj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(jsonString); 
var formatted = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(obj, Formatting.Indented);

Todos los créditos son para Frank Tzanabetis. Sin embargo, este es el ejemplo directo más corto, que también sobrevive en el caso de una cadena vacía o una cadena JSON original rota:

using Newtonsoft.Json;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;

    ...
    private static string Format(string jsonString)
    {
        try
        {
            return JToken.Parse(jsonString).ToString(Formatting.Indented);
        }
        catch
        {
            return jsonString;
        }
    }

Esto pondrá cada artículo en una nueva línea.

VB.NET

mytext = responseFromServer.Replace("{", vbNewLine + "{")

C#

mytext = responseFromServer.Replace("{", Environment.NewLine + "{");

Esta es una variante de la respuesta aceptada que me gusta usar. Las partes comentadas dan como resultado lo que considero un formato más legible (necesitaría comentar el código adyacente para ver la diferencia):

public class JsonHelper
{
    private const int INDENT_SIZE = 4;

    public static string FormatJson(string str)
    {
        str = (str ?? "").Replace("{}", @"\{\}").Replace("[]", @"\[\]");

        var inserts = new List<int[]>();
        bool quoted = false, escape = false;
        int depth = 0/*-1*/;

        for (int i = 0, N = str.Length; i < N; i++)
        {
            var chr = str[i];

            if (!escape && !quoted)
                switch (chr)
                {
                    case '{':
                    case '[':
                        inserts.Add(new[] { i, +1, 0, INDENT_SIZE * ++depth });
                        //int n = (i == 0 || "{[,".Contains(str[i - 1])) ? 0 : -1;
                        //inserts.Add(new[] { i, n, INDENT_SIZE * ++depth * -n, INDENT_SIZE - 1 });
                        break;
                    case ',':
                        inserts.Add(new[] { i, +1, 0, INDENT_SIZE * depth });
                        //inserts.Add(new[] { i, -1, INDENT_SIZE * depth, INDENT_SIZE - 1 });
                        break;
                    case '}':
                    case ']':
                        inserts.Add(new[] { i, -1, INDENT_SIZE * --depth, 0 });
                        //inserts.Add(new[] { i, -1, INDENT_SIZE * depth--, 0 });
                        break;
                    case ':':
                        inserts.Add(new[] { i, 0, 1, 1 });
                        break;
                }

            quoted = (chr == '"') ? !quoted : quoted;
            escape = (chr == '\\') ? !escape : false;
        }

        if (inserts.Count > 0)
        {
            var sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder(str.Length * 2);

            int lastIndex = 0;
            foreach (var insert in inserts)
            {
                int index = insert[0], before = insert[2], after = insert[3];
                bool nlBefore = (insert[1] == -1), nlAfter = (insert[1] == +1);

                sb.Append(str.Substring(lastIndex, index - lastIndex));

                if (nlBefore) sb.AppendLine();
                if (before > 0) sb.Append(new String(' ', before));

                sb.Append(str[index]);

                if (nlAfter) sb.AppendLine();
                if (after > 0) sb.Append(new String(' ', after));

                lastIndex = index + 1;
            }

            str = sb.ToString();
        }

        return str.Replace(@"\{\}", "{}").Replace(@"\[\]", "[]");
    }
}

Solo usa JsonDocumenty Utf8JsonWriter. No se requiere biblioteca de terceros. No se jsonStringrequiere ningún objeto de destino para la deserialización .

using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.Json;

// other code ...

public string Prettify(string jsonString)
{
    using var stream = new MemoryStream();
    var document = JsonDocument.Parse(jsonString);
    var writer = new Utf8JsonWriter(stream, new JsonWriterOptions { Indented = true });
    document.WriteTo(writer);
    writer.Flush();
    return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(stream.ToArray());
}

J Bryan Price, un buen ejemplo, pero hay deficiencias

{\"response\":[123, 456, {\"name\":\"John\"}, {\"count\":3}]}

después de formatear

{
    "response" : [
        123,
         456,
         {
            "name" : "John"
        },
         {
            "count" : 3
        }
    ]
}

sesgo inadecuado :(

Ejemplo

    public static string JsonFormatter(string json)
    {
        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();

        bool quotes = false;

        bool ignore = false;

        int offset = 0;

        int position = 0;

        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(json))
        {
            return string.Empty;
        }

        json = json.Replace(Environment.NewLine, "").Replace("\t", "");

        foreach (char character in json)
        {
            switch (character)
            {
                case '"':
                    if (!ignore)
                    {
                        quotes = !quotes;
                    }
                    break;
                case '\'':
                    if (quotes)
                    {
                        ignore = !ignore;
                    }
                    break;
            }

            if (quotes)
            {
                builder.Append(character);
            }
            else
            {
                switch (character)
                {
                    case '{':
                    case '[':
                        builder.Append(character);
                        builder.Append(Environment.NewLine);
                        builder.Append(new string(' ', ++offset * 4));
                        break;
                    case '}':
                    case ']':
                        builder.Append(Environment.NewLine);
                        builder.Append(new string(' ', --offset * 4));
                        builder.Append(character);
                        break;
                    case ',':
                        builder.Append(character);
                        builder.Append(Environment.NewLine);
                        builder.Append(new string(' ', offset * 4));
                        break;
                    case ':':
                        builder.Append(character);
                        builder.Append(' ');
                        break;
                    default:
                        if (character != ' ')
                        {
                            builder.Append(character);
                        }
                        break;
                }

                position++;
            }
        }

        return builder.ToString().Trim();
    }

Esta versión produce JSON que es más compacto y, en mi opinión, más legible, ya que puede ver más a la vez. Lo hace formateando la capa más profunda en línea o como una estructura de matriz compacta.

El código no tiene dependencias pero es más complejo.

{ 
  "name":"Seller", 
  "schema":"dbo",
  "CaptionFields":["Caption","Id"],
  "fields":[ 
    {"name":"Id","type":"Integer","length":"10","autoincrement":true,"nullable":false}, 
    {"name":"FirstName","type":"Text","length":"50","autoincrement":false,"nullable":false}, 
    {"name":"LastName","type":"Text","length":"50","autoincrement":false,"nullable":false}, 
    {"name":"LotName","type":"Text","length":"50","autoincrement":false,"nullable":true}, 
    {"name":"LotDetailsURL","type":"Text","length":"255","autoincrement":false,"nullable":true} 
  ]
}

El código sigue

private class IndentJsonInfo
{
    public IndentJsonInfo(string prefix, char openingTag)
    {
        Prefix = prefix;
        OpeningTag = openingTag;
        Data = new List<string>();
    }
    public string Prefix;
    public char OpeningTag;
    public bool isOutputStarted;
    public List<string> Data;
}
internal static string IndentJSON(string jsonString, int startIndent = 0, int indentSpaces = 2)
{
    if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(jsonString))
        return jsonString;

    try
    {
        var jsonCache = new List<IndentJsonInfo>();
        IndentJsonInfo currentItem = null;

        var sbResult = new StringBuilder();

        int curIndex = 0;
        bool inQuotedText = false;

        var chunk = new StringBuilder();

        var saveChunk = new Action(() =>
        {
            if (chunk.Length == 0)
                return;
            if (currentItem == null)
                throw new Exception("Invalid JSON: No container.");
            currentItem.Data.Add(chunk.ToString());
            chunk = new StringBuilder();
        });

        while (curIndex < jsonString.Length)
        {
            var cChar = jsonString[curIndex];
            if (inQuotedText)
            {
                // Get the rest of quoted text.
                chunk.Append(cChar);

                // Determine if the quote is escaped.
                bool isEscaped = false;
                var excapeIndex = curIndex;
                while (excapeIndex > 0 && jsonString[--excapeIndex] == '\\') isEscaped = !isEscaped;

                if (cChar == '"' && !isEscaped)
                    inQuotedText = false;
            }
            else if (Char.IsWhiteSpace(cChar))
            {
                // Ignore all whitespace outside of quotes.
            }
            else
            {
                // Outside of Quotes.
                switch (cChar)
                {
                    case '"':
                        chunk.Append(cChar);
                        inQuotedText = true;
                        break;
                    case ',':
                        chunk.Append(cChar);
                        saveChunk();
                        break;
                    case '{':
                    case '[':
                        currentItem = new IndentJsonInfo(chunk.ToString(), cChar);
                        jsonCache.Add(currentItem);
                        chunk = new StringBuilder();
                        break;
                    case '}':
                    case ']':
                        saveChunk();
                        for (int i = 0; i < jsonCache.Count; i++)
                        {
                            var item = jsonCache[i];
                            var isLast = i == jsonCache.Count - 1;
                            if (!isLast)
                            {
                                if (!item.isOutputStarted)
                                {
                                    sbResult.AppendLine(
                                        "".PadLeft((startIndent + i) * indentSpaces) +
                                        item.Prefix + item.OpeningTag);
                                    item.isOutputStarted = true;
                                }
                                var newIndentString = "".PadLeft((startIndent + i + 1) * indentSpaces);
                                foreach (var listItem in item.Data)
                                {
                                    sbResult.AppendLine(newIndentString + listItem);
                                }
                                item.Data = new List<string>();
                            }
                            else // If Last
                            {
                                if (!(
                                    (item.OpeningTag == '{' && cChar == '}') ||
                                    (item.OpeningTag == '[' && cChar == ']')
                                   ))
                                {
                                    throw new Exception("Invalid JSON: Container Mismatch, Open '" + item.OpeningTag + "', Close '" + cChar + "'.");
                                }

                                string closing = null;
                                if (item.isOutputStarted)
                                {
                                    var newIndentString = "".PadLeft((startIndent + i + 1) * indentSpaces);
                                    foreach (var listItem in item.Data)
                                    {
                                        sbResult.AppendLine(newIndentString + listItem);
                                    }
                                    closing = cChar.ToString();
                                }
                                else
                                {
                                    closing =
                                        item.Prefix + item.OpeningTag +
                                        String.Join("", currentItem.Data.ToArray()) +
                                        cChar;
                                }

                                jsonCache.RemoveAt(i);
                                currentItem = (jsonCache.Count > 0) ? jsonCache[jsonCache.Count - 1] : null;
                                chunk.Append(closing);
                            }
                        }
                        break;
                    default:
                        chunk.Append(cChar);
                        break;
                }
            }
            curIndex++;
        }

        if (inQuotedText)
            throw new Exception("Invalid JSON: Incomplete Quote");
        else if (jsonCache.Count != 0)
            throw new Exception("Invalid JSON: Incomplete Structure");
        else
        {
            if (chunk.Length > 0)
                sbResult.AppendLine("".PadLeft(startIndent * indentSpaces) + chunk);
            var result = sbResult.ToString();
            return result;
        }
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        throw;  // Comment out to return unformatted text if the format failed.
        // Invalid JSON, skip the formatting.
        return jsonString;
    }
}

La función le permite especificar un punto de partida para la sangría porque lo uso como parte de un proceso que ensambla archivos de respaldo con formato JSON muy grandes.