I am trying to deserialize the Json to List object of Student which conister of studentName and studentId. I do get the jsonResponse with around 200 students but when I get to deserialize I got the below error. I did reserch for this error and the fix for the issue is similar to the code that I have so I am not sure what is wrong.
Cannot deserialize the current JSON object (e.g. {"name":"value"}) into type 'System.Collections.Generic.List`1[MyApp.Models.Student]' because the type requires a JSON array (e.g. [1,2,3]) to deserialize correctly.
public static async Task<List<Student>> GetUserInfo()
{
var token = await AccessToken.GetGraphAccessToken();
// Construct the query
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
HttpRequestMessage request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, Globals.MicrosoftGraphUsersApi);
request.Headers.Authorization = new System.Net.Http.Headers.AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", token);
// Ensure a successful response
HttpResponseMessage response = await client.SendAsync(request);
response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
// Populate the data store with the first page of groups
string jsonResponse = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
var students = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Student>>(jsonResponse);
return students;
}
Below is the JSON response from Microsoft Graph Api
{
"@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#users(studentName,studentId)",
"value": [
{"studentName":"Radha,NoMore","studentId":"420"},
{"studentName":"Victoria, TooMuch","studentId":"302"}
]
}
C# student Class:
public class Student
{
public string studentName { get; set; }
public string studentId { get; set; }
}
CodePudding user response:
The JSON response contains a value:
property, and that property contains the students as array data. Therefore you'll need to make an additional class that has a List<Student> value
property, deserialize to that class, and then you can use the List of Students that is in the value
property, as follows:
var listHolder = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<StudentListHolder>(jsonResponse);
var list = listHolder.value;
foreach (var student in list)
{
Console.WriteLine(student.studentId " -> " student.studentName);
}
This is the additional class:
public class StudentListHolder // pick any name that makes sense to you
{
public List<Student> value { get; set; }
}
Working demo (.NET Fiddle): https://dotnetfiddle.net/Lit6Er