# GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Core.Rdl.Persistence.Json.JsonCoders.Collection

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<h1 id="GrapeCity_ActiveReports_Core_Rdl_Persistence_Json_JsonCoders_Collection_" data-uid="GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Core.Rdl.Persistence.Json.JsonCoders.Collection*">Collection Method
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<h4 id="GrapeCity_ActiveReports_Core_Rdl_Persistence_Json_JsonCoders_Collection__2_GrapeCity_ActiveReports_Core_Rdl_Persistence_Json_JsonCoder___0__" data-uid="GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Core.Rdl.Persistence.Json.JsonCoders.Collection``2(GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Core.Rdl.Persistence.Json.JsonCoder{``0})">Collection&lt;T, TCollection&gt;(JsonCoder&lt;T&gt;)</h4>
<div class="markdown level1 summary"><p>Gets a coder for the <a class="xref" href="https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.collections.objectmodel.collection-1">Collection&lt;T&gt;</a> type.</p>
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<h5 class="declaration">Declaration</h5>
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  <pre><code class="lang-csharp hljs">public static JsonCoder&lt;TCollection&gt; Collection&lt;T, TCollection&gt;(JsonCoder&lt;T&gt; itemCoder) where TCollection : Collection&lt;T&gt;, new()</code></pre>
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<h5 class="parameters">Parameters</h5>
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      <td><a class="xref" href="GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Core.Rdl.Persistence.Json.JsonCoder-1.html">JsonCoder</a>&lt;T&gt;</td>
      <td><span class="parametername">itemCoder</span></td>
      <td><p>A <a class="xref" href="GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Core.Rdl.Persistence.Json.JsonCoder-1.html">JsonCoder&lt;T&gt;</a> to encode and decode the value.</p>
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<h5 class="returns">Returns</h5>
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      <td><a class="xref" href="GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Core.Rdl.Persistence.Json.JsonCoder-1.html">JsonCoder</a>&lt;TCollection&gt;</td>
      <td><p>A <a class="xref" href="GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Core.Rdl.Persistence.Json.JsonCoder-1.html">JsonCoder&lt;T&gt;</a> with the default value handling.</p>
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<h5 class="typeParameters">Type Parameters</h5>
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      <td><span class="parametername">T</span></td>
      <td><p>The type of the value.</p>
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      <td><span class="parametername">TCollection</span></td>
      <td><p>The collection of the <a class="xref" href="https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.collections.objectmodel.collection-1">Collection&lt;T&gt;</a> values.</p>
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<h5 class="exceptions">Exceptions</h5>
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      <td><a class="xref" href="https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.formatexception">FormatException</a></td>
      <td><p>Thrown if the value is not a <code>array</code>.</p>
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