Best way to handle JSON deserialization failure in C#

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.NET6

Hello, so long story short I have a web app, which uses Json deserialization in order to display information about products:

var ProductInfo = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Product>(Product.CertificateFieldsHeader);

I want to avoid situation in which if deserialization fails (for example JSON is invalid), user will get a 500 error.

What I have tried:

First thing which came to my mind was simply throwing it into try catch block:

try
       {
          var ProductInfo = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Product>(Product.CertificateFieldsHeader);

       }
       catch (JsonException jsonException)
       {
                   _logger.LogInformation(jsonException);

       }

...but that solution didn't seem to be very elegant.


I have also thought about creating an extension method, for example:

public static bool TryParseJson<T>(this string obj, out T result)
{
    try
    {
        JsonSerializerSettings settings = new JsonSerializerSettings();
        settings.MissingMemberHandling = MissingMemberHandling.Error;

        result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>(obj, settings);
        return true;
    }
    catch (Exception)
    {
        result = default(T);
        return false;
    }
}

But that method wasn't catching any errors when I tested it. How should I approach the problem? Just stick to simple try catch block?