Deserialize JSON Array with JSON.NET JArray

Question

I'm trying to deserialize my JSON Array using Newtonsoft JSON.NET nugget:

Here's the code:

 private List<TemplateTypesObj> getTemplateTypes(JArray array)
    {
        List<TemplateTypesObj> templateTypes = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<TemplateTypesObj>>(array);

        return templateTypes;
    } 

The only issue is that DeserializeObject takes String, not an JArray object. I can do array.toString() but I'm not sure if that is a proper way to do that.

Answer 1

That's because a JArray doesn't really need deserializing. It's not a string/binary representation of an object (which is something you'd deserialize). It's already an object which represents your JSON. You can use it like an object - iterate through it, extract individual items from it.

Check out the docs at http://www.newtonsoft.com/json/help/html/t_newtonsoft_json_linq_jarray.htm - there are methods in there which I'm sure could be used to achieve the conversion you want.