Determine if Json results is object or array

Question

I am using .net web api to get json and return it to the front end for angular. The json can be either an object or an array. My code currently only works for the array not

Answer 1

Asthetically I like the answer @dcastro gave better. But, if you are generating a JToken object, you can also just use the Type enum property of the token. It's possibly less expensive then doing an object type comparison, as the Type property has already been determined.

https://www.newtonsoft.com/json/help/html/T_Newtonsoft_Json_Linq_JTokenType.htm

//...JToken token
if (token.Type == JTokenType.Array)
{
    IEnumerable phones = token.ToObject>();
}
else if (token.Type == JTokenType.Object)
{
    Phone phone = token.ToObject();
}
else
{
    Console.WriteLine($"Neither, it's actually a {token.Type}");
}