How to Deserialize a string which contains multiple object of same type in appended format [C#]

Question

Let's say I have an Employee class.

Employee
{
   string Name;
   int Age
}

My string contains the data of different company's employee in a string. I want deserialize it as List of Company Info. I have Company Class. Is there any solution which can deserialize multiple appended objects represented as string as following .

[{"companyName":"ABC","Employees":[{"Name":"X","Age":24},{"Name":"Y","Age":27}]}]
[{"companyName":"XYZ","Employees":[{"Name":"A","Age":24},{"Name":"B","Age":27}]}]

I want to know If there is an existing solution for it or I need to write my own JSON reader.

What you've shown isn't valid Json. If it were, you could just use the built-in .NET deserialiser. If that's really the pseudo-Json you've been given, you can either fix it to be valid, or split it down into individual Json chunks and deserialise each one in turn. — Avrohom Yisroel, Oct 28 '22 at 15:43
yes, It's not a valid json. I'm looking if there is some existing solution which can parse it and deserialize it as valid json object. — monalisha saha, Oct 28 '22 at 16:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 29 '22 at 19:13

Given the sample you have shown, it is pretty easy to convert to valid Json. You need to replace the ] at the end of the first (and subsequent, but not including the last) lines with a comma, and remove the [ at the beginning of all lines other than the first, eg...

[{"companyName":"ABC","Employees":[{"Name":"X","Age":24},{"Name":"Y","Age":27}]},
{"companyName":"XYZ","Employees":[{"Name":"A","Age":24},{"Name":"B","Age":27}]}]

That is then valid Json that can be parsed by any standard parser.

How to Deserialize a string which contains multiple object of same type in appended format [C#]

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