When using JsonConvert method DeserializeObject, is there a way to handle deserialization errors and-CodePudding

I'm using an API and I'm not 100% sure of the types (and that can't be changed, unfortunately). I'm using the method 'DeserializeObject' from the NewtonSoft.Json namespace 'JsonConvert' type.

Is there a way to deserialize the things that I have defined and skip the errors?

For example, let's say I have the following JSON object:

{
  "name": "John Smith",
  "age": 30,
  "city": "New York"
}

And the C# object I'll deserialize it into will be:

// Root myDeserializedClass = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Root>(myJsonResponse);
public class Root
{
    public string name { get; set; }
    public int age { get; set; }
    public string city { get; set; }
}

However, let's say the age comes as a string, but I don't know it may come as a string and thus I can't use the JsonConverter method. That'd end in an error.

Is there a way to handle the error and deserialize the name property and the city property?

CodePudding user response：

Try using this code example

string json = "{ invalid json }";

var settings = new JsonSerializerSettings();
settings.Error = (sender, args) => {
    // Handle the error here
    // For example, you could log the error or ignore it
    args.ErrorContext.Handled = true;
};

try
{
    var obj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<MyClass>(json, settings);
}
catch (JsonException ex)
{
    // Handle the exception here
    // For example, you could log the exception or display an error message
}

CodePudding user response：

If you use Newtonsoft.Json, in this case "age":"30" will be working too

Root root = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Root>(json); // No error

But you can't create one code to held properly the exceptions for all properties. For example, in the case "age":"" or "age":null , I would use this code

var jObject=JObject.Parse(json);

if (jObject["age"].Type==JTokenType.String)
{
    if( int.TryParse( (string) jObject["age"],out var age ) ) jObject["age"] = age ;
      else jObject["age"] = -1;
}

  Root root = jObject.ToObject<Root>();