Deserialize JSON objects do different class names

Question

I am using System.Text.Json to deserialize objects from an external API call in C#. I have created the classes for the data and is very straight-forward.

public class DocumentListRoot
{
    public List<LevelDocumentList> LevelDocumentList { get; set; }
    public string FileNumber { get; set; }
    ... more properties
}

public class LevelDocumentList
{
    public string FolderName { get; set; }
    public string FolderAutomationId { get; set; }
    public string DocumentTypeName { get; set; }
    public List<Attribute> Attributes { get; set; }
    ... more properties
}

public class Attribute
{
    public string name { get; set; }
    public string value { get; set; }
}

The default name for DocumentListRoot was Root and I changed that with no issues. What I would like to do is to change the name of LevelDocumentList to a different name. I have seen several posts here but they are pertaining to changing attribute names, not class names. I did try parsing the JSON string and renaming the class there, and it works, but that seems like a hack.

I would like to know if there is a way while deserializing, to change the names of the classes.

Answer 1

Then you can change your class name as you need. Since deserialization only cares about names of properties as @ gunr2171 said. You can change your class name accordingly as well as work around but not a hacky way of doing it.

Refer to the code below:

public class DocumentListRoot
{        
    public List<MyLevelDocumentList> LevelDocumentList { get; set; }  // New class name
    public string FileNumber { get; set; }
    // other remaining properties
}

public class MyLevelDocumentList // New class name
{
    public string FolderName { get; set; }
    public string FolderAutomationId { get; set; }
    public string DocumentTypeName { get; set; }
    public List<MyAttribute> Attributes { get; set; } // refer the new class name 
    // define other properties as usual 
}

public class MyAttribute // New class you want
{
    public string name { get; set; }
    public string value { get; set; }
}