Handle malformed JSON.

C#: Catch JsonException for malformed JSON without swallowing unrelated failures.

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.Json;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

try { using var document = JsonDocument.Parse("{broken}"); }
catch (JsonException) { Console.WriteLine("Invalid JSON"); }

Expected output EXAMPLE

Invalid JSON

Details

Use Program.cs in a .NET 8 console project and run dotnet run. Uses only the .NET standard libraries. Catch JsonException for malformed JSON without swallowing unrelated failures.

✓ Verified

Tested on Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS · 2026-11-02 18:06:51 UTC · 8.0.425 · libc6 2.39-0ubuntu8.9

Test inputs, results and environment

The exact published code ran in a dedicated Linux test container with prepared inputs. Unprivileged snippet process, external networking disabled, read-only root filesystem, and a fresh temporary working directory. Fixtures and output records are isolated from the application database. Testing covers this example and its stated checks, not every input, operating system, or runtime version. The Linux container shares its host's kernel; this is not a native Windows test.

Architecture / host kernel: x86_64 / 6.18.54.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2
Snippet identity / locale: uid=65534, gid=65534 (unprivileged) / C.UTF-8
Interpreter invocation: dotnet build --no-restore && dotnet out/csharp.dll
Container image ID: sha256:32dc2d998158b6554c99b73b533f423696a0f3e31e8cbea9db10b5eee9a2fadd
Code SHA-256: 10317c4d7e706e41a2a901aa0aa7e200ab30faf69817e4c2263d5d10caf4ada3
Dependencies: libc6 2.39-0ubuntu8.9

Test input setup

These are the prepared inputs used by the test harness. See Details above for the prerequisites and how to run this example.

# No input files required.

Observed standard output

Invalid JSON

Exit code: 0. Standard error: empty. Validation: Exact stdout comparison. System-dependent values above are one recorded run.