How to pass JSON data in the Report Viewer and Writer

How to pass JSON data in the Bold Reports Report Viewer and Report Writer

You have to Convert the objects from JSON data as shown in the following code example.

string json = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(@"<App Location>\App_Data\categories.json");
Categories Categories = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Categories>(json);

writer.DataSources.Clear();
writer.DataSources.Add(new ReportDataSource( Name = "Categories", Value = Categories.ToList()));

public class Categories : List<Category>
{

}

public class Category
{
  public int CategoryID { get; set; }
  public string Description { get; set; }
  public string Name { get; set; }
}