Can you clear objects while code still running?

I have some JSON that I deserialize by doing like:

Rootobject rootObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(rawJSON);

That gets put into things like:

public class Rootobject
{
public Result result { get; set; }
public bool success { get; set; }
}
public class Result
{
public string title { get; set; }
public Datum[] data { get; set; }
public int total { get; set; }
}
public class Datum
{
public string type { get; set; }
public string title { get; set; }
public string series_title { get; set; }
public string label { get; set; }
public string content_id { get; set; }
public string airdate { get; set; }
public long airdate_ts { get; set; }
public DateTime airdate_iso { get; set; }
public string expiredate_raw { get; set; }

Everything working great. That said, I want to now run

Rootobject rootObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(rawJSON);

again with a different set of JSON data. Basically a different feed but the exact same layout. Will all the above class objects still have the old data in it and when I loop thru that data will just be appended to it? If so is there a way to clear all values before looping thru the second process without creating two programs that run separately?

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Sachin Singh5y ago
If you deserialize two times then each time your object have different data as per the raw Json.
Rootobject rootObject = JsonConvert.Deserialize(rawJSON);// RootObject have different data

Rootobject rootObject = JsonConvert.Deserialize(rawJSON1);// here RootObject have different data , it will override the old one
Malvik Bhavsar5y ago
Hi John,

Try like this.

Rootobject rootObject = new Rootobject();
rootObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(rawJSON);

Second time:

rootObject = new Rootobject();

rootObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(rawJSON);