How to deserialize the Json response and store it into List?

Question

I'm working on a webService app for the first time. I have an http api that I am using to get the list of URLs to download Sample.xml files. I have created an object class that contains the list of urls and I am trying to DeSerialize the jsonString directly into the List of URL. Any idea why DeserializeObject method is not working?

Here's my Code:

public class StoreGetXmlUrl
    {
        public bool Flag{ get; set; }
        public List<String> Urls { get; set; }
        public string ErrorMessage { get; set; }
    }

public static List<String> CheckForNewXmlFile(string storeKey)
        {
            StoreGetXmlUrl result = new StoreGetXmlUrl();
            result.Status = true;
            _logger.Info($"Fetching new file URL for storekey:{storeKey}");
            try
            {
               
                var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://execute-api.us-west-2.com/default/param?=" + storeKey);

                var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

                var responseString = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();

                result.Urls = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<String>>(responseString);

            }
            catch (WebException ex)
            {
                result.Status = false;
                string errorMessage = ex.Message;
                HttpWebResponse httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)ex.Response;
                using (WebResponse response = ex.Response)
                using (Stream data = response.GetResponseStream())
                using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(data))
                {
                    errorMessage = reader.ReadToEnd();
                }
                #pragma warning disable 4014
                _logger.Error($"Verification of store key failed with message: {errorMessage}");
                #pragma warning restore 4014
                result.ErrorMessage = errorMessage;
            }
            return result.Urls;
        }

This is what the json response looks like:

responseString = "{\"urls\": [\"https://uswest2.abc.com/sample.xml\"]}"

Answer 1

result.Urls = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<String>>(responseString);

The above line is trying to deserialize a string array from json below which is a JSON object that has a property named urls that is actually a string array :

"{\"urls\": [\"https://uswest2.abc.com/sample.xml\"]}"

So you should be deserializing like this :

result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<StoreGetXmlUrl>(responseString);