Deserialize ExternalIDs in Google apps Directory API

Question

I can see the JSON response but I'm not able to deserialize the ExternalIDs in google apps directory API. (C#)

var users = service.Users.Get(EMail).Execute();
var externalIDs = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<UserExternalId>(users.ExternalIds);

Gives a compiler error:

Error 1 The best overloaded method match for 'Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(string, params Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConverter[])' has some invalid arguments

Answer 1

I believe the reason is an error in your code. As you commented the object ExternalIds contains a json array. Thus your code should be:

UserExternalId[] exId = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<UserExternalId[]>(x.ExternalIds.ToString());

Notice the [] on the objecttype to deserialize.