Using JSON.Net to parse a property of an array - json.net

Question

I have a JSON response that I would like to parse using JSON.NET. I have done this with single values before but never when the response could contain an object that consist of an array as the errors property does below.
{
"code": "InvalidObject",
"message": "payment object is invalid",
"errors": [
{
"code": "AccountingApi",
"message": "Paid amount cannot be greater than the amount of the invoice.",
"resource": "payment",
"field": "amount"
},
{
"code": "AccountingApi",
"message": "Payment has not been verified",
"resource": "payment",
"field": "verification"
}
]
}
I would like to extract the error messages into a List. How do I specify that I want to grab the message property in the errors collection?
List<string> errorMessages = parsedJson["errors"].ToList<string>();

Answer 1

You could use
class Error
{
public string code { get; set; }
public string message { get; set; }
public string resource { get; set; }
public string field { get; set; }
}
class Some
{
public string code { get; set; }
public string message { get; set; }
public List<Error> errors { get; set; }
}
Then (Probably you'll send your json string as param )
List<string> parse()
{
var s = new StringBuilder();
s.Append("{");
s.Append(" \"code\": \"InvalidObject\",");
s.Append("\"message\": \"payment object is invalid\",");
s.Append("\"errors\": [");
s.Append("{");
s.Append("\"code\": \"AccountingApi\",");
s.Append("\"message\": \"Paid amount cannot be greater than the amount of the invoice.\",");
s.Append("\"resource\": \"payment\",");
s.Append("\"field\": \"amount\"");
s.Append("},");
s.Append("{");
s.Append("\"code\": \"AccountingApi\",");
s.Append("\"message\": \"Payment has not been verified\",");
s.Append("\"resource\": \"payment\",");
s.Append("\"field\": \"verification\" ");
s.Append("}");
s.Append("]");
s.Append("}");
var json = s.ToString();
var obj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Some>(json);
return obj.errors.Select(x => x.message).ToList();
}