Validating result of JsonConvert.DeserializeObject (think "try parse") using JSON.Net

Question

I have incoming messages that I need to try and parse in my own objects structure. SOme of these are well formed JSON obejcts and some are just nonsense.

I use JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<MyObject>(incmoingString); to do this. This however sometimes gives me a exception when the incoming is total garbage. Other times I get a non-complete object structure when the incoming string is kind of OK - and finally it sometimes work.

I've wrapped the conversion in a try/catch and than manually validate that I've gotten the properties I need to the deserialized result.

Is there a better way to do this?

Answer 1

Json.NET supports JSON Schema. You could create a schema with all the required properties marked and validate incoming JSON against it before deserializing.