Error reading JObject from JsonReader. Current JsonReader item is not an object: StartArray. Path

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The first part of your question is a duplicate of Why do I get a JsonReaderException with this code?, but the most relevant part from that (my) answer is this:

[A] JObject isn’t the elementary base type of everything in JSON.net, but JToken is. So even though you could say,

object i = new int[0];

in C#, you can’t say,

JObject i = JObject.Parse("[0, 0, 0]");

in JSON.net.

What you want is JArray.Parse, which will accept the array you’re passing it (denoted by the opening [ in your API response). This is what the “StartArray” in the error message is telling you.

As for what happened when you used JArray, you’re using arr instead of obj:

var rcvdData = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<LocationData>(arr /* <-- Here */.ToString(), settings);

Swap that, and I believe it should work.

Although I’d be tempted to deserialize arr directly as an IEnumerable<LocationData>, which would save some code and effort of looping through the array. If you aren’t going to use the parsed version separately, it’s best to avoid it.

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