How do I deserialize a JSON array and ignore the root node?

Question

I have next response from server -

{"response":[{"uid":174952xxxx,"first_name":"xxxx","last_name":"xxx"}]} 

I am trying to deserialize this in next way -

JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>(json);   

Where T = List of VkUser, but I got error.

[JsonObject] public class VkUser {     [JsonProperty("uid")]     public string UserId { get; set; }      [JsonProperty("first_name")]     public string FirstName { get; set; }      [JsonProperty("last_name")]     public string LastName { get; set; } } 

I always tryed

public class SomeDto // maybe Response as class name will fix it but I don't want such name {     public List<VkUser> Users {get;set;} } 

What deserialization options can help me?

Answer 1

Use SelectToken:

string s =  "{\"response\":[{\"uid\":174952,\"first_name\":\"xxxx\",\"last_name\":\"xxx\"}]}";  var users = JObject.Parse(s).SelectToken("response").ToString();  var vkUsers = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<VkUser>>(users); 

as pointed out by Brian Rogers, you can use ToObject directly:

var vkUsers = JObject.Parse(s).SelectToken("response").ToObject<List<VkUser>>();