How to Deserialize a very Simple RestSharp JSON Object? - json

Question

Forgive what surely has to be a dumb question, but I'm just starting out with C# using JSON.
I have this class:
public class DBCount
{
public string Count { get; set; }
}
I create an instance:
public DBCount dbCount;
My web service is returning this:
[{"Count":"234"}]
This code throws an invalid cast when it tries to deserialize the response:
var client = new RestClient("http://www.../")
var request = new RestRequest ("demo/jsondbcount.php",Method.GET);
request.RequestFormat = DataFormat.Json;
var response = client.Execute (request);
RestSharp.Deserializers.JsonDeserializer deserialCount = new JsonDeserializer();
dbCount = deserialCount.Deserialize<DBCount> (response);
Here's the invalid cast error:
"Cannot cast from source type to destination type"
If anyone can point me to a basic, simple example of using RestSharp to deserialize a simple object I'd be very grateful. I've searched everywhere for a basic code sample.
Thanks

Answer 1

You may have figured this out already but the problem is []. [{"Count":"234"}] is an array of size 1 that contains a single object with the field Count.
If you want your server to return an object that will deserialize to a DBCount then return {"Count":"234"} without the [].
If you want your code to correctly deserialize [{"Count":"234"}] then you need to indicate that it's deserializing a collection like so:
deserialCount.Deserialize<List<DBCount>>(response);