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c#jsonobjectdeserialization

Deserializing JSON to a property with type "object"

Well, I'm trying to serialize and save an object to JSON format and then deserialize the same object in C#. The object class is as follows:

public class NodeModel
{
    public double X { get; set; }
    public double Y { get; set; }
    public int ParentNumber { get; set; }
    public GeometryParams Geometry { get; set; }
    public object Props { get;  set; }
}

I cannot use concrete classes instead of the object for the type of Props since the type is different among different objects. When I Serialize the object, I use a derived type to fill Props property. The result is well-structured in the JSON file. But when I deserialize it, it returns null for Props property while other properties are deserialized successfully.

Solution

  • Thanks to the comment of Martin https://stackoverflow.com/users/1882699/martin-staufcik Changing the type of Props to JObject helped me get the value of Props.