Manky Fox:

Currently I have a Json body that I would like to deserialize into a list of objects in C#. The JSON looks very similar to this:

{
    "123": {
        "id": "123",
        "description": "Element 1",
        ...
    },
    "456": {
        "id": "456",
        "description": "Element 2",
        ...
    },
    ...
}

My current structure is as follows:

class FooList
{
    public Dictionary Foos { get; set; }
}

class Foo
{
    public int id { get; set; }
    public string description { get; set; }
}

and utilising NewtonSoft I am attempting the following:

// json = string representation of json data
JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json);

This doesn't work. I have managed to deserialize single instances of Foo with the previous line of code, but I am unsure how I can handle the process when the JSON doesn't have a set root element and comprises a list of objects with dynamic root elements.

Apologies if this question has been answered previously, either I am using incorrect language to describe the issue or the answer doesn't seem to exist.

Edit: "This doesn't work" equates to returning an instance of FooList with Foos as null.