deserialize list of objects using json.net

Question

i have this class

public class Image
{
    public string url { get; set; }
    public string url_40px { get; set; }
    public string url_50px { get; set; }
}

public class Category
{
    public List<int> ancestor_ids { get; set; }
    public int parent_id { get; set; }
    public List<object> children_ids { get; set; }
    public string nodename { get; set; }
    public int num_parts { get; set; }
    public List<Image> images { get; set; }
    public string __class__ { get; set; }
    public int id { get; set; }
}

and i deserialize it like this

retObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(Of Category)(jsonResp)

but for a list of category returned, how do i convert to List<Category>? thanks

Answer 1

The type parameter for DeserializeObject has to be List<Category> instead of Category.

In C# it would be JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Category>>(json)

And In VB.Net it would be JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(Of List(Of Category))(json)