Error with Json Deserializing List<MyReferenceType> about restsharp HOT 4 CLOSED

your _restClient.Execute<List>(request). is falling coz the object ur getting is not a a list/array.

u should create another one

[DataContract]
public class FacebookCollection {
[DataMember(Name = "data")]
public List Data { get; set; }
}

then call the execute
_restClient.Execute<FacebookCollection<User>>(request);

anyways i have been creating a sdk for facebook graph api, u can find it here http://github.com/prabirshrestha/FacebookSharp/blob/master/src/FacebookSharp.Core/Schemas/Graph/_Connection.cs

im slowly planning on using restsharp as the helper library for it.

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Actually Brandon's code should work without any attributes. None of the DataContract attributes are supported by the JsonDeserializer.

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Bad news Brandon. There's no way that I can think of with the current JSON.NET parsing to support .Execute<List<foo>>() for both types of valid JSON:

[ 
        {
            "name": "Bob",
            "id": "12345"
        }, 
        {
            "name": "Mike",
            "id": "123456"
        }, 
        {
            "name": "Joe",
            "id": "100000000000"
        } 
]

and

{     
    "data": [ 
        {
            "name": "Bob",
            "id": "12345"
        }, 
        {
            "name": "Mike",
            "id": "123456"
        }, 
        {
            "name": "Joe",
            "id": "100000000000"
        } 
    ]
}

So to make this work you'll have to define your poco like this:

class UserList {
    public List<User> data { get; set; }
}

And call it with client.Execute<UserList>(request);

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The reason it won't work with RootElement is that you can't change the root until after you've parsed the whole object with JObject.Parse(). But if the doc has an array at the root, you have to parse with JArray.Parse() which breaks if it isn't an array. I think List is a better match for root arrays, so it wins out. Especially since there are alternate ways to get at that child node for lists.

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