Deserializing JSON array into strongly typed .NET object

Question

When I can call the 3rd party api and get back a single class worth of data everything deserialises fine using this code

TheUser me = jsonSerializer.Deseria         


        

Answer 1

This solution seems to work for me and gets around having to code a bunch of classes with "Data" in them.

public interface IDataResponse<T> where T : class
{
    List<T> Data { get; set; }
}

public class DataResponse<T> : IDataResponse<T> where T : class
{
   [JsonProperty("data")]
   public List<T> Data { get; set; }
}

I should have included this to begin with, here is an example method using the above:

public List<TheUser> GetUser()
{
    var results = GetUserJson();
    var userList = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<DataResponse<TheUser>>(results.ToString());

    return userList.Data.ToList();
} 

Answer 2

try

List<TheUser> friends = jsonSerializer.Deserialize<List<TheUser>>(response);