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# discriminator

The object’s type identifier.

```
attribute string discriminator;
```

## Discussion

For an object that’s part of a hierarchy, an object deserializer uses a discriminator value to determine what the JSON should be deserialized as. The deserializer function emits this error if the discriminator is unrecognized.

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