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This doesn't seem to deserialize when the list properties exist/have any data; in that case they get deserialized as nulls. Your example doesn't round trip (try deserializing the result of the original serialization). Any ideas? I really liked this approach but it's just not working -- I need an Array in my json source that is null to deserialize to an empty list, but one that has data to deserialize to that list with said data.

pinkfloydx33
– pinkfloydx33

2019-02-08 23:05:28 +00:00
Commented Feb 8, 2019 at 23:05
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@pinkfloydx33 You're right-- you need to set ObjectCreationHandling to Replace for the round-trip to work correctly. I've amended my answer. Here is a fiddle to prove it works once this setting is added: dotnetfiddle.net/wsEyze

Brian Rogers
– Brian Rogers

2019-02-09 06:45:05 +00:00
Commented Feb 9, 2019 at 6:45
Cool, thanks! I thought I was going crazy originally until I tried your code verbatim and then attempted the round trip. Much appreciated

pinkfloydx33
– pinkfloydx33

2019-02-09 08:06:10 +00:00
Commented Feb 9, 2019 at 8:06

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