Newtonsoft JToken Extensions for dealing with nulls with Value<T> where T is a struct.

JTokenExtensions.cs

using System;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
 
public static class JTokenExtensions
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Extension of JToken Value<T> method. Used to avoid null exceptions with value types when parsing JToken.
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
    /// <param name="token"></param>
    /// <param name="key"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static T ValueOrDefault<T>(this JToken token, object key) where T : struct
    {
        return ValueOrDefault<T>(token[key]);
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Extension of JToken Value<T> method.  Used to avoid null exceptions with value types when parsing JToken.
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
    /// <param name="token"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static T ValueOrDefault<T>(this JToken token) where T : struct
    {
        if (token == null)
            return default(T);

        return token.Type == JTokenType.Null ? default(T) : token.Value<T>();
    }
}