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Hello,

I'm using a example from Github (https://github.com/freshdesk/fresh-samples/blob/master/C-Sharp/GetTickets.cs) and I have a little bit of drouble with the responseBody.

I added some new lines to deserialize the responseBody to a class "ticket". Also I changed the apiPath to "/api/v2/tickets?include=requester", cause I wanted to get the requester too.

using System;

using System.Net;

using System.Text;

using System.IO;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using Newtonsoft.Json;



namespace ConsoleSample

{

class Program

{

static void Main(string[] args)

{

string fdDomain = "YOUR_DOMAIN"; // your freshdesk domain

string apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

string apiPath = "/api/v2/tickets?include=requester"; // API path

string responseBody = String.Empty;

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://" + fdDomain + ".freshdesk.com" + apiPath);

request.ContentType = "application/json";

request.Method = "GET";

string authInfo = apiKey + ":X"; // It could be your username:password also.

authInfo = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.Default.GetBytes(authInfo));

request.Headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " + authInfo;

try

{

Console.WriteLine("Submitting Request");

using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())

{

Stream dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();

StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);

responseBody = reader.ReadToEnd();

reader.Close();

dataStream.Close();

//return status code

Console.WriteLine("Status Code: {1} {0}", ((HttpWebResponse)response).StatusCode, (int)((HttpWebResponse)response).StatusCode);

}

Console.Out.WriteLine(responseBody);

}

catch (WebException ex)

{

Console.WriteLine("API Error: Your request is not successful. If you are not able to debug this error properly, mail us at support@freshdesk.com with the follwing X-Request-Id");

Console.WriteLine("X-Request-Id: {0}", ex.Response.Headers["X-Request-Id"]);

Console.WriteLine("Error Status Code : {1} {0}", ((HttpWebResponse)ex.Response).StatusCode, (int)((HttpWebResponse)ex.Response).StatusCode);

using (var stream = ex.Response.GetResponseStream())

using (var reader = new StreamReader(stream))

{

Console.Write("Error Response: ");

Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd());

}

}

catch (Exception ex)

{

Console.WriteLine("ERROR");

Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);

}



//NEW LINES



try

{

List<Ticket> tickets = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Ticket>>(responseBody);

}

catch(Exception ex)

{

Console.WriteLine("ERROR");

Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);

}



Console.ReadLine();

}



public class Ticket

{

public ulong id { get; set; }

public List<string> cc_emails { get; set; }

public string company_id { get; set; }

public string description_text { get; set; }

public DateTime created_at { get; set; }

public List<Requester> requester { get; set; }

}



public class Requester

{

public ulong id { get; set; }

public string name { get; set; }

public string email { get; set; }

}

}

}

But I get always following exception.

Exception.Message

Cannot deserialize the current JSON object (e.g. {"name":"value"}) into type 'System.Collections.Generic.List`1[ConsoleSample.Program+Requester]' because the type requires a JSON array (e.g. [1,2,3]) to deserialize correctly.

To fix this error either change the JSON to a JSON array (e.g. [1,2,3]) or change the deserialized type so that it is a normal .NET type (e.g. not a primitive type like integer, not a collection type like an array or List<T>) that can be deserialized from a JSON object. JsonObjectAttribute can also be added to the type to force it to deserialize from a JSON object.

Path '[0].requester.id', line 1, position 1732.


Is there maybe something wrong in the responseBody? Did I made a error?


thanks
phillip