/// <summary>
/// Parses an instance of <typeparamref name="T" /> from a Json string.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Uses the same serialization settings as <see cref="ToCompactJson" />.
/// </remarks>
public static T ParseJsonTo <T>([NotNull] this string json)
{
var settings = CreateSerializationSettings();
// TODO get rid of this special case handling
json = LegacyDataUtils.UpdateLegacyDataFormats(json, settings);
T obj;
try
{
obj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject <T>(json, settings);
}
catch (JsonReaderException)
{
// sometimes, DateTimeOffset serialization is missing offset for unknown reasons
json = json.Replace("\"0001-01-01T00:00:00\"", "\"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z\"");
// if parsing still does not work, we cannot handle the problem here
obj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject <T>(json, settings);
}
foreach (var f in Fixers)
{
obj = (T)f.Fix(json, obj);
}
return(obj);
}
/// <summary>
/// Parses an instance of <paramref name="type" /> from a Json string.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Uses the same serialization settings as <see cref="ToCompactJson" />.
/// </remarks>
public static object ParseJsonTo([NotNull] this string json, [NotNull] Type type)
{
var settings = CreateSerializationSettings();
// TODO get rid of this special case handling
json = LegacyDataUtils.UpdateLegacyDataFormats(json, settings);
var obj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json, type, settings);
foreach (var f in Fixers)
{
obj = f.Fix(json, obj);
}
return(obj);
}