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    <p>I am trying to deserialize some reddit comments (returned in JSON) using JSON.NET. I have come across a problem where the Comment has a field "Replies", which is either another Comment object, or empty quotes (""). The problem is the JSON.NET deserializer throws an exception when deserializing a field that is expecting an object but finds "" (as I expect it is looking for null rather than "").</p> <p>Example:</p> <pre><code>"data":{ "body":"We were being trolled. ", "subreddit_id":"t5_2qh1i", "author_flair_css_class":null, "created":1318984933.0, "author_flair_text":null, "downs":1, "author":"evange", "created_utc":1318959733.0, "body_html":"&lt;div class=\"md\"&gt;&lt;p&gt;We were being trolled.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;", "levenshtein":null, "link_id":"t3_lghhj", "parent_id":"t3_lghhj", "likes":null, "replies":"", "id":"c2shf1a", "subreddit":"AskReddit", "ups":6, "name":"t1_c2shf1a" } </code></pre> <p>And then this is the :</p> <pre><code>"data":{ "body":"Dude, it was a Roll Troll. Forget it.", "subreddit_id":"t5_2qh1i", "author_flair_css_class":null, "created":1318985233.0, "author_flair_text":null, "downs":1, "author":"youngmonk", "created_utc":1318960033.0, "body_html":"&lt;div class=\"md\"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dude, it was a Roll Troll. Forget it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;", "levenshtein":null, "link_id":"t3_lghhj", "parent_id":"t3_lghhj", "likes":null, "replies":{ "kind":"Listing", "data":{ "modhash":"", "children":[....etc </code></pre> <p>Is there a way to deserialize this with JSON.NET, or will I have to do a RegEx to search for "Replies": "" to change all those empty quotes to null?</p> <p>Thanks!</p>
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    1. COHave you looked into [JSON.net's `NullValueHandling` settings](http://james.newtonking.com/projects/json/help/SerializationSettings.html)?
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    2. COI will have to take a look at that - I believe if the value was null it would be ok, but the ""'s are causing an issue, maybe I can get the deserializer to treat "" as null though, thanks for the tip!
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