remove pre-pending "data" from json string

Question

I am making a call to a third party API, and the json string I get back looks like this:

{

  "data":[

          {"id":197567,"name":"101","url":"http://www.foobar1.com"},

          {"id":197568,"name":"102","url":"http://www.foobar2.com"},

          .....

          {"id":197569,"name":"120","url":"http://www.foobar20.com"}

        ],

  "offset":0,

  "pageSize":2,

  "count":20

}

And then I have a class

FoorBarURIs

:

private class FoorBarURLs

{

    public int id { get; set; }

    public string name { get; set; }

    public string url { get; set; }

}

So, I don't care about the

offset

or the

pagesize

or the

count

. All I need is the data inside

data

.

Given that what I'm starting with is just a string, how do I extract that list from

data

so I can do this:

List<FoorBarURLs> myList = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<FoorBarURLs>>(???)

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Answer 1

Use a temporary JObject

var obj = JObject.Parse(json)["data"].ToObject<List<FoorBarURLs>>();

remove pre-pending "data" from json string

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