JavaScriptDeserializer exception parsing JSON response

Question

I am parsing a JSON response from Citrix' web services. The response looks like this

[{\"webinarKey\":123456,\"subject\":\"Subject\",\"description\":\"Webinar Description. \",\"organizerKey\":123456,\"times\":[{\"startTime\":\"2012-05-08T16:00:00Z\",\"endTime\":\"2012-05-08T17:00:00Z\"}],\"timeZone\":\"America/New_York\"}]

I manually edited that string to remove identifying information, so if there is a missing quote or anything it is unrelated.

I followed the example from this answer on SO, but still am encountering an error.

Deserializing JSON result with Json & JavaScriptSerializer

public class Webinars {
    public string webinarKey;
    public string subject;
    public string description;
    public string organizerKey;
    public WebinarTimes[] times;
    public string timeZone;
}

public class WebinarTimes {
    public string startTime;
    public string endTime;
}

JavaScriptSerializer jss = new JavaScriptSerializer();
var foo = jss.Deserialize<Webinars>(JSON);

I receive the following error: Type 'Web.Site.Webinars' is not supported for deserialization of an array.

Answer 1

You have to use IList<Webinars> instead of Webinars

var foo = jss.Deserialize<IList<Webinars>>(JSON);