I'm trying to dezerialize an array but I keep running into an error.
JavaScriptSerializer jsonSerializer = new JavaScriptSerializer(); Profiles thingy = jsonSerializer.Deserialize<Profiles>(fileContents);
This is the code that gives me the error:
Type is not supported for deserialization of an array.
This is how my JSON looks:
[ { "Number": 123, "Name": "ABC", "ID": 123, "Address": "ABC" } ]
You just need to deserialize it to a collection of some sort - e.g. an array. After all, your JSON does represent an array, not a single item. Short but complete example:
using System; using System.IO; using System.Web.Script.Serialization; public class Person { public string Name { get; set; } public string ID { get; set; } public string Address { get; set; } public int Number { get; set; } } class Test { static void Main() { var serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer(); var json = File.ReadAllText("test.json"); var people = serializer.Deserialize<Person[]>(json); Console.WriteLine(people[0].Name); // ABC } }
The JSON is a list. The square brackets in JSON indicate an array or list of objects. So you need to tell it to return a list of objects:
JavaScriptSerializer jsonSerializer = new JavaScriptSerializer(); var profiles = jsonSerializer.Deserialize<List<Profiles>>(fileContents);