Parsing from JSON NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

[Divunity]

JSON File

{
  "values": [
    "a",
    "ability",
    "able",
    "about",
    "above",
    "abroad",
    "absence",
    "absent",
    "absolute",
    "accept",
    "accident"
  ]
}

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Helper Class

[System.Serializable]
public class NewUserDataFormat
{
	public List<string> values { get; set; }

	public NewUserDataFormat(List<string> l)
	{
		foreach (var VARIABLE in l)
		{
			values.Add(VARIABLE);
		}
	}
}

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Parsing Method

	private void LoadGameDataAsString()
	{
		var filePath = Application.dataPath + gameDataProjectFilePath;

		if (File.Exists(filePath))
		{
			
			var dataAsJson = File.ReadAllText(filePath);
			JDeserialize(dataAsJson as string);
			
		}
		else
		{
			Debug.Log("can't find file : " + filePath);
		}
	}
	
	void JDeserialize(string jstring)
	{
		Debug.Log(jstring);
		NewUserDataFormat sf = (NewUserDataFormat)JsonUtility.FromJson(jstring, typeof(NewUserDataFormat));
		
		Debug.Log(sf.values.Count);//ERROR HERE
	}

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Please Help , Thank You in advance.

[Bunny83]

You declared “values” as auto-property. Unity doesn’t serialize properties. The next thing is your contructor of your class doesn’t work as you never initialize “values”. You may want to declare it like this:

[System.Serializable]
public class NewUserDataFormat
{
    public List<string> values = new List<string>();
    public NewUserDataFormat(List<string> l)
    {
        values.AddRange( l );
    }
}

[satya_jeetu]

use Json.NET - Newtonsoft library
Worked for me