PUBSUB BITS: Malformed JSON Response

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I tried doing the same testing a while back with raw strings but is was more of a hassle than it was worth. What I found to be a good testing methodology is to assemble a class and then serialize it, like so:

PubSubMessage fake_message = new PubSubMessage
{
    type = PubSubType.MESSAGE.ToString(),
    data = new PubSubMessageData
    {
        topic = string.Empty,
        message = string.Empty
    }
};

PubSubSubscriptionsMessage fake_sub_message = new PubSubSubscriptionsMessage
{
    user_name = "dallas",
    display_name = "dallas",
    channel_name = "twitch",
    user_id = "44322889",
    channel_id = "12826",
    time = DateTime.Parse("2015-12-19T16:39:57-08:00"),
    sub_plan = "1000",
    sub_plan_name = "Mr_Woodchuck - Channel Subscription (mr_woodchuck)",
    months = 9,
    context = "resub",
    sub_message = new PubSubSubscriptionsSubMessage
    {
        message = "A Twitch baby is born! KappaHD",
        emotes = new List<PubSubEmotes>
        {
            new PubSubEmotes
            {
                start = 7,
                end = 23,
                id = "2867"
            }
        }
    }
};

fake_message.data.topic = "channel-subscribe-events-v1.44322889";
fake_message.data.message = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(fake_sub_message);

string fake_message_string = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(fake_message);

Then all you need to do is deserialize the string like normal. I personally find this much more flexible and much easier to read.