using System;

using System.Text;

using System.Text.Json;

using System.Text.Json.Serialization;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Collections;

using System.Linq;

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public class Program

{

    public static void Main()

    {

        string json = @"[{""prefix"":""SB"",""identifier"":""1"",""brief_title"":""Natural resources: fishing;This is a TEST"",""house_conferees"":[""Carter"", ""Coleman"", ""Haadsma""],""senate_conferees"":[""Anthony"", ""Bayer"", ""Hauck""],""house_agreed"":""1/1/2023"",""senate_agreed"":""""}]";

        string json2 = @"[{""prefix"":""SB"",""identifier"":""1"",""brief_title"":""Natural resources: fishing;This is a TEST"",""house_conferees"":[""Carter"", ""Coleman"", ""Haadsma""],""senate_conferees"":[""Anthony"", ""Bayer"", ""Hauck""],""house_agreed"":null,""senate_agreed"":null}]";

        IEnumerable<TestThing> things = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<IEnumerable<TestThing>>(json);

        Console.WriteLine(things.Count());

        TestThing thing = things.FirstOrDefault();

        Console.WriteLine("Prefix: " + thing.Prefix);

        Console.WriteLine("Identifier: " + thing.Identifier);

        Console.WriteLine("Brief Title: " + thing.BriefTitle);

        Console.WriteLine("House Conferees: " + thing.HouseConferees.Length);

        Console.WriteLine("Senate Conferees: " + thing.SenateConferees.Length);

        Console.WriteLine("House Agreed: " + thing.HouseAgreed);

        Console.WriteLine("Senate Agreed: " + thing.SenateAgreed);

    }

    private class NullableDateTimeConverter : JsonConverter<DateTime?>

    {

        public override DateTime? Read(ref Utf8JsonReader reader, Type typeToConvert, JsonSerializerOptions options)

        {

            string value = reader.GetString();

            if(String.IsNullOrEmpty(value)) {

                return null;

            }

            return DateTime.Parse(value);

        }

        public override void Write(Utf8JsonWriter writer,

            DateTime? dateTimeValue,

            JsonSerializerOptions options)

        {

            throw new NotImplementedException();

        }

    }

    private class TestThing

    {

        public string Prefix {get;set;}

        public string Identifier {get;set;}

        [JsonPropertyName("brief_title")]

        public string BriefTitle {get;set;}

        [JsonPropertyName("house_conferees")]

        public string[] HouseConferees {get;set;}

        [JsonPropertyName("senate_conferees")]

        public string[] SenateConferees {get;set;}

        [JsonPropertyName("house_agreed")]

        [JsonConverter(typeof(NullableDateTimeConverter))]

        public DateTime? HouseAgreed {get;set;}

        [JsonPropertyName("senate_agreed")]

        [JsonConverter(typeof(NullableDateTimeConverter))]

        public DateTime? SenateAgreed {get;set;}

    }

}