Question

I’m receiving a JSON date in the following format:

"launch_date": 1250553600

How should I modify the following to include a custom DateTime parser that allows me to convert that number into a DateTime object?

JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<NTask>(json);

public sealed class NTask
{
    public DateTime launch_date { get; set; }
}

Alternatively I could use long and then parse it in another field but I’d rather avoid doing that, and have JsonConvert automatically parse it to DateTime through some converter.

Answer 1

You’re going to want to use a JSONConverter to help manage the translation. See this stackapps answer for more detail.