c# - Issues deserialising JSON -

i have json data shown here:

[ {"article":     {         "articleid":0,         "engtitle":"area of interest",         "engexcerpt":"",         "engbody":"",         "articletag":             {                 "tagattribute1":"selection",                 "tagattribute2":"areaofinterest"             }     } } ] 

which me looks fine when gets passed method on deserializeobject called, results in error.

here code have deserialize object:

list<articlejson> lstarticlejson = jsonconvert.deserializeobject<list<articlejson>>(jsondata); 

and here relevant models:

public class articlejson {     public article article { get; set; } }  public partial class article : basemodel { public article()     {         this.articletag = new hashset<articletag>();     }      public string engtitle { get; set; }     public string engexcerpt { get; set; }     public string engbody { get; set; }     public virtual ienumerable<articletag> articletag { get; set; } }  public partial class articletag : basemodel {         public string tagattribute1 { get; set; }     public string tagattribute2 { get; set; } } 

i cannot see need change rectify error getting thrown:-

cannot deserialize current json object (e.g. {"name":"value"}) type 'system.collections.generic.ienumerable`1[model.articletag]' because type requires json array (e.g. [1,2,3]) deserialize correctly.

to fix error either change json json array (e.g. [1,2,3]) or change deserialized type normal .net type (e.g. not primitive type integer, not collection type array or list) can deserialized json object. jsonobjectattribute can added type force deserialize json object.

path '[0].article.articletag.tagattribute1', line 1, position 1538.

try changing json edit:

"articletag": [      {"tagattribute1":"selection",      "tagattribute2":"areaofinterest"} ] 

it's because have ienumerable<articletag> though sending 1 object, need still specify json array binder happy.

in same way can't in c#

ienumerable<foo> foos = new foo(); 

the error posted tells this:

to fix error either change json json array (e.g. [1,2,3]) or change deserialized type normal .net type (e.g. not primitive type integer, not collection type array or list) can deserialized json object. jsonobjectattribute can added type force deserialize json object.