C# – Deserialize JSON with a specific constructor

When your class has multiple constructors, you can use the JsonConstructor attribute to specify which constructor to use during deserialization. Here’s an example. The Person class has two constructors. I put the JsonConstructor attribute on one of the constructors: Note: JsonConstructor for System.Text.Json was added in .NET 5. Now deserialize a JSON string to the … Read more

C# – Deserialize JSON to a derived type

The simplest way to deserialize JSON to a derived type is to put the type name in the JSON string. Then during deserialization, match the type name property against a set of known derived types and deserialize to the target type. System.Text.Json doesn’t have this functionality out of the box. That’s because there’s a known … Read more

C# – Examples of using JsonDocument to read JSON

You can use the JsonDocument class when you want to read and process JSON without having to deserialize the whole thing to an object. For example, let’s say you have the following JSON object representing wind variables: Now let’s say you’re only interested in the wind speed. Instead of having to deserialize this into a … Read more