Let's say the return type is

    public ActionResult Balance()
    {
        var myDtos = new List<BalanceModelDto>();
        return Ok(new {data = myDtos});
    }

and in my xunit, I assert the return type.

        using (var client = new HttpClient())
        {                          
            var response = await client.GetAsync($"/Balance");
            var responseString = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

            var result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<BalanceModelDto>(responseString);

            Assert.IsType<BalanceModelDto>(result);

            Assert.Equal(1, result.Balance);
        }

The problem is responseString is "{\"data\":[{"balance\":1}]}". But what I want is just "[{"balance\":1}]"

CodePudding user response：

Either: you should be looking at result.data instead of just result. or: return Ok(myDtos); from the ActionMethod.

CodePudding user response：

Deserialize into JObject:

var responseRaw = (JObject) JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(responseString);

Then convert "data" property of that json object into BalanceModelDto[]:

var result = responseRaw["data"].ToObject<BalanceModelDto[]>();