How can I deserialize an invalid json ? Truncated list of objects

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Looks like on Json.NET 8.0.3 you can stream your string from a JsonTextReader to a JTokenWriter and get a partial result by catching and swallowing the JsonReaderException that gets thrown when parsing the truncated JSON:

JToken root;
string exceptionPath = null;
using (var textReader = new StringReader(badJson))
using (var jsonReader = new JsonTextReader(textReader))
using (JTokenWriter jsonWriter = new JTokenWriter())
{
    try
    {
        jsonWriter.WriteToken(jsonReader);
    }
    catch (JsonReaderException ex)
    {
        exceptionPath = ex.Path;
        Debug.WriteLine(ex);
    }
    root = jsonWriter.Token;
}

Console.WriteLine(root);
if (exceptionPath != null)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Error occurred with token: ");
    var badToken = root.SelectToken(exceptionPath);
    Console.WriteLine(badToken);
}

This results in:

[
  {
    "key": "value1"
  },
  {
    "key ": "value2"
  },
  {}
]

You could then finish deserializing the partial object with JToken.ToObject. You could also delete the incomplete array entry by using badToken.Remove().

It would be better practice not to generate invalid JSON in the first place though. I’m also not entirely sure this is documented functionality of Json.NET, and thus it might not work with future versions of Json.NET. (E.g. conceivably Newtonsoft could change their algorithm such that JTokenWriter.Token is only set when writing is successful.)

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