Can RestSharp handle byte arrays?

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I'm using RestSharp. I was using XML as the transport encoding for my data, but then I had problems with that, so I switched to using JSON. Now I'm having problems with that too!

All was well until I tried to pass an object containing a byte array (*). Now I get a de-serialization error complaining about "object has no parameterless constructor". (The JSON returned by the server looks Kosher - it's just not being correctly de-serialized by RestSharp).

I see I'm not the only one having problems. Is there no solution other than the baby-out-with-the-bathwater approach suggested in that post?

(*) I had tested it with a small hand-coded byte array early on in my development, just to check that it worked. It did work then, but doesn't work now. I don't know if that's due to the size of the array, the "characters" in the array, or what. Dammit, this has been such a time-sink!

Just curious, what happens if you declare List<byte> instead of byte[] ? — Tommy Grovnes
– Tommy Grovnes, Commented Aug 20, 2012 at 13:11

Gary McGill · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-10 11:07:27Z

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For anyone else struggling with this, I ended up simply swapping out the JSON formatter in favour of JSON.NET. That works.

answered Sep 10, 2012 at 11:07

Gary McGill

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