Parse a Json Array in to a class in c#

arrays, c#, json, json.net

Solution

The JSON you have will work if you simply deserialize it as a `List<RootObject>`:

var h = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<RootObject>>(string);

Or an array:

var h = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<RootObject[]>(string);

If you want to deserialize a `ListRoot`, the JSON would need to look like this:

{
    "status": [
        {
            "text": "Sample Text",
            ...
        },
        {
            "text": "Another Sample Text",
            ...
        }
    ] 
}

Problem

I parsed this single Json : ``` { "text": "Sample Text", "id": 123456789, "user": { "name": "ExampleUser", "id": 123, "screen_name": "ExampleUser" }, "in_reply_to_screen_name": null, } ``` to my c# class RootObject : ``` public class User { public string name { get; set; } public int id { get; set; } public string screen_name { get; set; } } public class RootObject { public string text { get; set; } public long id { get; set; } public User user { get; set; } public object in_reply_to_screen_name { get; set; } } ``` like this : ``` RootObject h = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<RootObject>(string); ``` All of this worked perfectly, but now I would like to parse an Array of all the precedent json object. For example this Json Array : ``` [ { "text": "Sample Text", "id": 123456789, "user": { "name": "ExampleUser", "id": 123, "screen_name": "ExampleUser" }, "in_reply_to_screen_name": null, }, { "text": "Another Sample Text", "id": 101112131415, "user": { "name": "ExampleUser2", "id": 124, "screen_name": "ExampleUser2" }, "in_reply_to_screen_name": null, } ] ``` I create another class : ``` public class ListRoot { public List<RootObject> status { get; set; } } ``` and then used the same method : ``` ListRoot h = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<ListRootObject>(string); ``` But it does not work. Do you know how can I parse this Json array to a c# class?

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