Property of list type maps to wrong type

[EmraanSiddiqui]

Hi Team, We have a response structure like this:

{
  "result": {
    "resultCode": "string",
    "resultDetailList": [
      {
        "detail": "string",
        "message": "string",
        "type": "string"
      }
    ],
    "source": "string"
  },
  "totalCount": 0,
  "virtualCustomers": [
    {
      "virtualCustomer": {
        "virtualCustomerType": [
          {
            "key": "string",
            "value": "string"
          }
        ],
        "virtualCustomerSubType": [
          {
            "key": "string",
            "value": "string"
          }
        ],
        "virtualCustomerCategory": [
          {
            "key": "string",
            "value": "string"
          }
        ],
        "virtualCustomerId": "string",
        "VirtualCustomers": [
          "string"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

The class structure is like this:

[ExcludeFromCodeCoverage]
public sealed class CreateThirdPartyCustomerRelationshipResponse : ApiResponseBase
{
    [JsonIgnore(Condition = JsonIgnoreCondition.WhenWritingNull)]
    public ThirdPartyCustomerInformationBase ThirdPartyCustomer;

    public List<CreateVirtualCustomerResponseBase> VirtualCustomers { get; set; }
}

[ExcludeFromCodeCoverage]
public sealed class CreateVirtualCustomerResponseBase
{
    public TPCVirtualCustomerResponse VirtualCustomer { get; set; }
}

public class TPCVirtualCustomerResponse : VirtualCustomerResponseBase
{
    public string VirtualCustomerId { get; set; }

    public List<CreateVirtualCustomerResponseBase> VirtualCustomers { get; set; }
}

[ExcludeFromCodeCoverage]
public sealed class CreateVirtualCustomerResponseBase
{
    public TPCVirtualCustomerResponse VirtualCustomer { get; set; }
}

[ExcludeFromCodeCoverage]
public abstract class VirtualCustomerResponseBase
{
    public List<KeyValue> VirtualCustomerType { get; set; }

    public List<KeyValue> VirtualCustomerSubType { get; set; }

    public List<KeyValue> VirtualCustomerCategory { get; set; }
}

the last virtual customers array in 201 created response example loading as string array instead of class object

How I can solve this issue, I searched a lot for the same but no matching solution found.

[Havunen]

Have you tested if DotSwashbuckle solves this issue? If it doesn't can you create a simple project where this issue is reproduced as a zip file or github repository please. I can take a look then.

[martincostello]

Could you create a minimal reproducible example project that demonstrates the issue in a GitHub repo please? Then it should be a lot easier for someone to look into this and see if we can fix it.