static object ParseAnonymousValue()

in src/StructuredLogger/Strings/JsonParser.cs [262:310]
48 lines of code
15 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

        static object ParseAnonymousValue(string json)
        {
            if (json.Length == 0)
                return null;
            if (json[0] == '{' && json[json.Length - 1] == '}')
            {
                List<string> elems = Split(json);
                if (elems.Count % 2 != 0)
                    return null;
                var dict = new Dictionary<string, object>(elems.Count / 2);
                for (int i = 0; i < elems.Count; i += 2)
                    dict[elems[i].Substring(1, elems[i].Length - 2)] = ParseAnonymousValue(elems[i + 1]);
                return dict;
            }
            if (json[0] == '[' && json[json.Length - 1] == ']')
            {
                List<string> items = Split(json);
                var finalList = new List<object>(items.Count);
                for (int i = 0; i < items.Count; i++)
                    finalList.Add(ParseAnonymousValue(items[i]));
                return finalList;
            }
            if (json[0] == '"' && json[json.Length - 1] == '"')
            {
                string str = json.Substring(1, json.Length - 2);
                return str.Replace("\\", string.Empty);
            }
            if (char.IsDigit(json[0]) || json[0] == '-')
            {
                if (json.Contains("."))
                {
                    double result;
                    double.TryParse(json, System.Globalization.NumberStyles.Float, System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, out result);
                    return result;
                }
                else
                {
                    int result;
                    int.TryParse(json, out result);
                    return result;
                }
            }
            if (json == "true")
                return true;
            if (json == "false")
                return false;
            // handles json == "null" as well as invalid JSON
            return null;
        }