Deserialize Array

Hi, I’m struggling to deserialize an array with this deserialize<Array<User>>(json, Array<User>). I get the error Argument of type 'User[]' is not assignable to parameter of type 'new (...params: any[]) => User[]'. How do I go about deserializing an array? Any help is appreciated. Thanks

[GillianPerard]

Hi thank you for using my lib.

You cannot directly deserialize an array because it’s not a json object.

You can do for example:

{
  "myArray": [
    { "id": 0, "name": "Item 1" },
    { "id": 1, "name": "Item 2" }
  ]
}

@Serializable()
class MyItem {
  @JsonProperty()
  id: number;

  @JsonProperty()
  name: string;
}

@Serializable()
class MyObject {
  @JsonProperty({ type: MyItem })
  myArray: Array<MyItem>;
}

deserialize<MyObject>(myJson, MyObject);

I hope it will help you!

[hecmec]

Hello, (just in case someone else has the same question) as for now I just preparse the string of a list

const list = JSON.parse(str);

and then I map each element

    const itemViewList: ItemViewLite[] = list.map((elm) => {
      return deserialize<ItemViewLite>(elm, ItemViewLite);
    });

That works ok for me. Thanks again. Hector