Why is JSON.NET is not working with inheritance while deserializing

Question

I am deserializing the JSON string to root object by using the following class which works fine .

[Serializable]
    public class MoviesListRootObject
    {
        public int count { get; set; }
        public Pagination pagination { get; set; }
        public List<Response> response { get; set; }
    }

...................................

var json = wc.DownloadString(jsonRequestURL);
var rootObj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<MoviesListRootObject>(json);

But if I am generalizng the root object bt creating parent class and then inheriting from it , then I get null after deserialization!!!!

[Serializable]
    public class RootObject
    {
        public int count { get; set; }
        public Pagination pagination { get; set; }
    }

[Serializable]
    public class MoviesListRootObject:RootObject
    {
        public List<MovieResponse> movieResponse { get; set; }

    }

..............................................

 var json = wc.DownloadString(jsonRequestURL);
 var rootObj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<MoviesListRootObject>(json);

Answer 1

It is quite simple and out of the box support provided by json.net, you just have to use the following JsonSettings while serializing and Deserializing:

JsonConvert.SerializeObject(graph, Formatting.None, new JsonSerializerSettings() {
    TypeNameHandling = TypeNameHandling.All,
    TypeNameAssemblyFormat = System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.FormatterAssemblyStyle.Simple
});

and for Deserializing use the below code:

JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bData), type,
    new JsonSerializerSettings() {
    TypeNameHandling = TypeNameHandling.All
});

Just take a note of the JsonSerializerSettings object initializer, that is important for you.