JSON.NET Error reading string. Unexpected token: StartObject. Path 'responseData', - json

Question

I am trying to deserialize this link , but I keep getting this error.
Error reading string. Unexpected token: StartObject. Path 'responseData'.
From what i have googled, the problem seems to be the setup of my object I'm trying to deserialize into. Below is my class:
public class FeedSearchResult
{
[JsonProperty("responseData")]
public String ResponseData { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("query")]
public String Query { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("entries")]
public string[] Entries { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("responseDetails")]
public object ResponseDetails { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("responseStatus")]
public String ResponseStatsu { get; set; }
}
public class ResultItem
{
[JsonProperty("title")]
public String Title { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("url")]
public String Url { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("link")]
public String Link { get; set; }
}
What am I doing wrong in my class? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Your data model only has two levels of nesting, but the JSON returned has three. If you look at the formatted JSON using https://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/ you will see:
{
"responseData":{
"query":"Official Google Blogs",
"entries":[
{
"url":"https://googleblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default",
"title":"\u003cb\u003eOfficial Google Blog\u003c/b\u003e",
"contentSnippet":"\u003cb\u003eOfficial\u003c/b\u003e weblog, with news of new products, events and glimpses of life inside \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eGoogle\u003c/b\u003e.",
"link":"https://googleblog.blogspot.com/"
},
In particular your data model has responseData as a String when it needs to be a contained object. This is the specific cause of the exception.
If you upload the JSON to http://json2csharp.com/ you will get the following data model, which can be used to deserialize this JSON:
public class ResultItem
{
public string url { get; set; }
public string title { get; set; }
public string contentSnippet { get; set; }
public string link { get; set; }
}
public class ResponseData
{
public string query { get; set; }
public List<ResultItem> entries { get; set; }
}
public class RootObject
{
public ResponseData responseData { get; set; }
//Omitted since type is unclear.
//public object responseDetails { get; set; }
public int responseStatus { get; set; }
}