c# - Deserializing Variant JSON Types -

i'm using newtonsoft json converter deserialize json text, have slight problem, array of objects returned me web service, , other times it's single object, let me give example of mean:

{    "t":{       "s":"054",       "t":"8",       "d":"548"    } } 

one array whereas other single object.

{    "t":[       {          "s":"054",          "t":"8",          "d":"548"       },       {          "s":"054",          "t":"8",          "d":"548"       },       {          "s":"054",          "t":"8",          "d":"548"       }    ] } 

when try deserialize using newtonsoft, error because it's expecting array , receives single object, there way around this?

you can check type of first property :

jobject obj = jobject.parse(json); if (obj["t"] jarray) {     // hit on second case } else {     // hit on first case } 

after that's, can deserialize object on list<t> or t.

hope it's !

edit : pastebin classes, have rebuild them , add callback on ondeserialized :

class jsonresponse {     public line root; }  class line {     [jsonproperty("time")]     public timestamp time { get; set; }     [jsonproperty("s")]     public list<station> s { get; set; } }  class timestamp {     [jsonproperty("@timestamp")]     public string @timestamp { get; set; } }  class station {     [jsonproperty("@code")]     public string @code { get; set; }     [jsonproperty("@n")]     public string @n { get; set; }     [jsonproperty("p")]     public list<platform> p { get; set; } }  class platform {     [jsonproperty("@n")]     public string @n { get; set; }     [jsonproperty("@code")]     public string @code { get; set; }      [jsonproperty("t")]     public jtoken t { get; set; }      [ondeserialized]     internal void ondeserializedmethod(streamingcontext context)     {         if (this.t != null)         {             if (this.t jarray)             {                 this.trains = jsonconvert.deserializeobject<list<train>>(this.t.tostring());             }             else             {                 train t = jsonconvert.deserializeobject<train>(this.t.tostring());                 this.trains = new list<train>() { t };             }         }     }     public list<train> trains; }  class train {     [jsonproperty("@s")]     public string @s { get; set; }     [jsonproperty("@t")]     public string @t { get; set; }     [jsonproperty("@d")]     public string @d { get; set; }     [jsonproperty("@c")]     public string @c { get; set; }     [jsonproperty("@l")]     public string @l { get; set; }     [jsonproperty("@de")]     public string @de { get; set; } } 

you got trains, on platform.trains property