Deserialize json in a “TryParse” way

Question

When I send a request to a service (that I do not own), it may respond either with the JSON data requested, or with an error that looks like this:

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Answer 1

You may deserialize JSON to a dynamic, and check whether the root element is error. Note that you probably don't have to check for the presence of status and code, like you actually do, unless the server also sends valid non-error responses inside a error node.

Aside that, I don't think you can do better than a try/catch.

What actually stinks is that the server sends an HTTP 200 to indicate an error. try/catch appears simply as checking of inputs.