C# dynamic JSON serialization

Question

I'm calling an API to fetch a list of devices. In my model i have an attribute for list of devices:

public List<Device> device { get; set; }

But, if the API returns 1 device, it's returned as just a Device, not a list of devices with 1 device.

Is there any good way to have a dynamic deserialize? I don't want to have two different models, and parse the JSON programatically just to know which object to deserialize as.

JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<ListDevicesByLabelModel>(responseText);

can you provide more of your code. it could be something else that is going on. — Qpirate
– Qpirate, Commented Feb 2, 2015 at 9:04
Where's the offending Json? If the API returns a single object instead of an array with one object ... — Panagiotis Kanavos
– Panagiotis Kanavos, Commented Feb 2, 2015 at 9:05
It's nestled, the device list is an attribute of an attribute etc.. — Lord Vermillion
– Lord Vermillion, Commented Feb 2, 2015 at 9:07
possible duplicate of How to handle both a single item and an array for the same property using JSON.net — dbc
– dbc, Commented Feb 2, 2015 at 10:09
Try using SingleOrArrayConverter from here: stackoverflow.com/questions/18994685/… — dbc
– dbc, Commented Feb 2, 2015 at 10:09

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:43:24Z

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The dynamic keyword is still great for deserializing JSON, I would recommend that you take a look on this question.

Deserialize JSON into C# dynamic object?

dynamic data = Json.Decode(responseText);

And then you've got a dynamic object to work with instead of needing 2 models.

Otherwise you could also have just one item in the List.

edited May 23, 2017 at 11:43

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