.NET JsonDeserializer fails when I rename List<> property with JsonProperty

Question

I'm trying to deserialize json that looks like this:

{
  "Total": 1,
  "Page": 1,
  "Products": [
    {
      "ID": "524c20a3-a8ec-44f2-9685-311f1f7d1498",
      "SKU": "Bread",
      "Name": "Baked Bread",
      "Category": "Other",
      "Brand": null,
      "Type": "Stock",
      ...
    }
}
// shortened here.  Full response comes from
   https://dearinventory.docs.apiary.io/#reference/product/product/get

Everything works fine if I make my object list this:

 public class PageProducts
  {
    public int Page { get; set; }
    public int Total { get; set; }
    public List<Product> Products { get; set; }
  }

but, it will fail if I try to change the Products property to a different name like below:

 public class PageProducts
  {
    public int Page { get; set; }
    public int Total { get; set; }
    [JsonProperty("Products")]
    public List<Product> Items { get; set; }
  }

What am I missing? I've done this lots of times for other properties. Is it something special with it being a List?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Please, provide more information on exception/inner exception details. because the problem not in serializing. as example I made a different conditions and all serialized correctly.

void Main()
{
    string json = "{\"Total\":1,\"Page\":1,\"Products\":[{\"ID\":\"524c20a3-a8ec-44f2-9685-311f1f7d1498\",\"SKU\":\"Bread\",\"Name\":\"Baked Bread\",\"Category\":\"Other\",\"Brand\":null,\"Type\":\"Stock\"}]}";
    Console.Write(JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<PageProducts>(json));
    Console.Write(JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<PageProducts2>(json));
    Console.Write(JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<PageProducts3>(json));
    Console.Write(JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<PageProducts4>(json));
}

public class PageProducts
{
    public int Page { get; set; }
    public int Total { get; set; }
    public List<Product> Products { get; set; }
}

public class PageProducts2
{
    public int Page { get; set; }
    public int Total { get; set; }
    [JsonProperty("Products")]
    public List<Product> Items { get; set; }
}

public class PageProducts3
{
    public int Page { get; set; }
    public int Total { get; set; }
    public Product[] products { get; set; }
}
public class PageProducts4
{
    public int Page { get; set; }
    public int Total { get; set; }
    [JsonProperty("Products")]
    public Product[] items { get; set; }
}

public class Product{
    public Guid ID {get;set;}
    public string SKU {get;set;}
    public string Name {get;set;}
    public string Category {get;set;}
}