using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using Newtonsoft.Json;

using Xunit;

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namespace Basic

{

    public class Application

    {

        public static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            var sanity = new SanityChecks();

            var actionList = new List<Action>() { sanity.SanityCheck_CanDeserialize,sanity.SanityCheck_CanSerialize,sanity.SanityCheck_CanDeserializeFromSerialized};

            foreach (var action in actionList)

            {

                Console.WriteLine("Test Started");

                try{

                    action.Invoke();

                    Console.WriteLine("Test Passed");

                }

                catch (Exception ex)

                {

                    Console.WriteLine(ex);

                    Console.WriteLine("Failed Test");

                }

                Console.WriteLine("\n\n");

            }       

        }

    }

    public class SanityChecks

    {

        public class TestClass 

        {

            internal Dictionary<int,string> _prvList = new Dictionary<int, string>();

            public IEnumerable<string> ListValues

            {

                get { return _prvList.Select(p=> p.Value).ToList();}

                set

                {

                    var valArr = value.ToArray();

                    for (var x = 0; x < valArr.Length; x++)

                    {

                        _prvList.Add(x,valArr[x]);

                    }

                }

            }

        }

        public void SanityCheck_CanDeserialize()

        {

            var assumption = "{\"ListValues\":[\"TestValue\",\"AAA\"]}";

            var actual = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<TestClass>(assumption);

            Assert.Equal(2, actual._prvList.Count());

            Assert.Equal(2, actual.ListValues.Count());

        }

        public void SanityCheck_CanSerialize()

        {

            var assumption = new TestClass() { ListValues = new[] { "TestValue", "AAA" } };

            var actualSerialized = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(assumption);

            Console.WriteLine(actualSerialized);

            Assert.Equal("{\"ListValues\":[\"TestValue\",\"AAA\"]}", actualSerialized);

        }

        public void SanityCheck_CanDeserializeFromSerialized()

        {

            var assumption = new TestClass() { ListValues = new[] { "TestValue", "AAA" } };

            var actualSerialized = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(assumption);

            Console.WriteLine(actualSerialized);

            var actualDeserialized = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<TestClass>(actualSerialized);

            Assert.Equal(2, actualDeserialized._prvList.Count());

            var actualDeserializedSerialized = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(actualDeserialized);

            Console.WriteLine(actualDeserializedSerialized);

            Assert.Equal(actualSerialized, actualDeserializedSerialized);

        }

    }

}

​