Question

I’m trying to deseralize some json into a collection (list), but I’m not sure which method will return a list of objects, or do I have to loop through something and copy it to my own list?

Can anyone tell me the syntax or method I should use for this.

I’ve created my object with some properties, so it’s ready to be used to hold the data. (title,url,description)

I’ve tried this, but it doesn’t seem quite right

 List<newsItem> test = (List<newsItem>)JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(Fulltext);

Answer 1

Did you try looking at the help?

http://james.newtonking.com/json/help/?topic=html/SerializingCollections.htm

string json = @"[
  {
    ""Name"": ""Product 1"",
    ""ExpiryDate"": ""\/Date(978048000000)\/"",
    ""Price"": 99.95,
    ""Sizes"": null
  },
  {
    ""Name"": ""Product 2"",
    ""ExpiryDate"": ""\/Date(1248998400000)\/"",
    ""Price"": 12.50,
    ""Sizes"": null
  }
]";

List<Product> products = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Product>>(json);

Console.WriteLine(products.Count);
// 2

Product p1 = products[0];

Console.WriteLine(p1.Name);
// Product 1