Populate JSON List To C# Object -

i'm trying populate json/xml string c# object. convert xml json , use json.net. example:

json string

{   "persons":[     {        "age":30,      "name":"david",      "hobbies":[           {              "name":"tennis",            "hours":5         },         {              "name":"football",            "hours":10         }      ]   },   {        "name":"adam",      "age":23,      "hobbies":[]   } ] } 

c# classes

public class hobbies {     public string name;     public int hours; }  class person {     public string name;     public int age;     public list<hobbies> hoobies = new list<hobbies>(); } 

i'm trying populate data list of persons:

list<person> persons = new list<person>(); jsonconvert.populateobject(myjsontext, persons); 

and i'm getting exception:

cannot populate json object onto type

how can that?

here json representation of object:

{   "key":"value" } 

and here representation of collection/array/list of object

[     {       "key":"value"     },     {       "key2":"value2"     } ] 

so json string doesn't representing array or collection of person class. it's representing object persons property collection of person object.

to parse list<person>, remove outermost { } , try.

your json should this

[     {         "age": 30,         "name": "david",         "hobbies": [             {                 "name": "tennis",                 "hours": 5             },             {                 "name": "football",                 "hours": 10             }         ]     },     {         "name": "adam",         "age": 23,         "hobbies": []     } ] 

and deserialize this

var result = jsonconvert.deserializeobject<list<person>>(json);