Deserialize json object list with newton in c#

Question

I have a json string that i am trying to deserialize into an object list using Newton. But it gives the

error Cannot deserialize the current JSON object (e.g. {"name":"value"}) into type 'System.Collections.Generic.List

The format of the json string is.

 [ { "key": "1", "value": "Package1" }, { "key": "some name", "value": "Package2" } ]

the Model is defined as

public class RootObject
{
    public string key { get; set; }
    public string value { get; set; }
}

And i'm using the following method to deserialize it, where json is the string listed above.

var resultList = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<RootObject>>(json);

I'm not sure where i'm going wrong here, any help would be appreciated.

Are you sure this is the json text that you're passing to the Deserialize method ? Because it should work completely fine for me. Can you output json object to the Console and paste it here ? — Zein Makki
– Zein Makki, Commented Jul 21, 2016 at 18:28
Did you escape the quotes? var jsonData = "[ { \"key\": \"1\", \"value\": \"Package1\" }, { \"key\": \"some name\", \"value\": \"Package2\" } ]"; — Petre T
– Petre T, Commented Jul 21, 2016 at 18:33
what you have seems to work fine in fiddle: dotnetfiddle.net/CvKGau — solidau
– solidau, Commented Jul 21, 2016 at 18:36
Thanks Every for your help, Petre Turuc that was the issue. Once i escaped the quotes it worked! — user3248331
– user3248331, Commented Jul 22, 2016 at 4:40

Priya Payyavula · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-24 06:28:55Z

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Try giving IDictionary instead of List.

answered Jul 24, 2016 at 6:28

Priya Payyavula

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