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    <p>I am trying to use the fanart.tv webservice API but have a couple of issues. I am using Json.Net (Newtonsoft.Json) and with other web-services I have de-serialized the JSON reponses into C# objects directly.</p> <p>The issue here is that the element names are changing. Eg. if I search for artist thumbs for Metallica you get</p> <pre><code>{"Metallica":{"mbid_id":"65f4f0c5-ef9e-490c-aee3-909e7ae6b2ab","artistthumb": [{"id":"36181","url":"http://assets.fanart.tv/fanart/music/65f4f0c5-ef9e-490c-aee3-909e7ae6b2ab/artistthumb/metallica-4fd83b0129f83.jpg","likes":"1"},...]}} </code></pre> <p>So the root element is called Metallica. Obviously search for another artist and you get a different element name. After attempting to deserialize this to an object I gave up and as in reality all I needed was a list of strings (the urls) I tried to process the JSON</p> <pre><code> var obj = _downloader.Download&lt;JObject&gt;(url); if (obj != null) { if (obj.HasValues) { var fanartArtist = (JProperty)obj.First; if (fanartArtist.HasValues) { var thumbs = fanartArtist.Value[SearchSubTypeToString(subType)]; if (thumbs.HasValues) { thumbUrls.AddRange(thumbs.Select(thumb =&gt; thumb["url"].ToString())); } } } } </code></pre> <p>which works fine when there is a response but if there are no thumbs the web-service returns null and this code fails with </p> <pre><code>Unable to cast object of type 'Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JValue' to type 'Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject'. </code></pre> <p>To complicate matters slightly I am sort of limited by the application and ideally I need to use</p> <pre><code>JsonConvert.DeserializeObject&lt;TE&gt;(json); </code></pre> <p>So the question is what what is the best approach to solve both of these issues?</p>
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    1. COThe data you're getting actually consists of a dictionary with a single key: `Metallica`, with a value that has all the rest of the data in it.
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