Deserialization of self-referencing properties does not work

Question

I have this object with a Parent property that reference another object of the same type:

[JsonObject(IsReference = true)]
class Group
{
    public strin         


        

Answer 1

Another way, i found, by being very stubborn is creating a two phase deserialization,
as i describe in the following Deserializing Circular References by Two-Phase deserialization

in general, i create two IContractResolvers, One is used to deserialize only the properties of the Constructor (in case it has parameters).

and in the second phase, I populate the object using regular ContractResolver.