c# parsing null to int from api fails [duplicate]

Question

I am trying to parse a null from our api into an int like this:

API:

"thresholdMax": 10,
                    "thresholdAvg": null,
                    "thresholdMin": 40

Datamodel:

public int thresholdMax { get; set; }
        public int thresholdAvg
        { 
            get { return thresholdAvg; }
            set
            {
                try
                {
                    thresholdAvg = value;
                }
                catch
                {
                    thresholdAvg = 0;
                }
            }

        }
        public int thresholdMin { get; set; }

But it fails saying it cannot parse null to int. I though however that with how I am setting these values, it should work.

What is the best practice, if I dont want to convert the type to string?

Answer 1

if you want to allow null values you could easily do:

public int? thresholdAvg { get; set; }