Issue in Converting the Users Results from Microsoft Graph API V1.0 to Json

Question

I am using below code to get all users and then converting it to Json Data:

var usersForDep = await graphServiceClient1.Users.Request().Select(e => new
                        {
                            e.Department,
                            e.BusinessPhones,
                            e.MobilePhone
                        }).GetAsync();


     JObject json = (JObject)JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(usersForDep.ToString());

usersForDep is of Microsoft.Graph.Users type which has several fields like Job Title, Email, Contact. Please Help.

Pelase help me in converting usersForDep to json data.

Answer 1

When you "deserialize" and object, you are converting a JSON string into an object. To convert an object into a JSON string, you to "serialize" that object.

Beyond that, usersForDep is not a JSON response. It is already a C# object ( GraphServiceUsersCollectionPage ). The SDK handles serialization and deserialization automatically.

One important note, usersForDep.ToString() won't serialize an object into JSON. It will simply return the string representation of an object; which in this case would be usersForDep 's Type.