As part of a recent project I’ve had to download a gzipped file of product details from a client endpoint and to load these products into a local SQL database. Although this is easy enough to do in discrete synchronous steps as below what I really wanted to do was Read more…
If you want to insert a row into an Azure Table Storage table the easiest way is to create a new class with the desired fields that inherits from TableEntity perform an insert operation with it using the storage client. This works fine as long as long as the properties Read more…
Serializing JSON values without quotes I have a package called ChartJSCore which generates the required JavaScript for creating Chart.js charts in a web application. For the most part the JS for this is essentially JSON so this works by serializing chart objects using Newtonsoft which automatically quotes both the object Read more…
Posting data to an MVC controller with jQuery The easiest way to post data from a view to a controller action is by adding a form and submit button and letting most of the hard stuff happen automatically. Unfortunately this doesn’t really work in cases where data needs to be Read more…
In addition to the SingleOrArrayEnumConverter mentioned previously I’ve also created a version to translate enums to/from JSON using the name of the enum rather than it’s value as is the default. This can then be used to decorate your enum class like so.
Single or array enum JSON converter. In addition to the SingleOrArrayConverter mentioned previously I’ve also created a version to translate enums to/from JSON using the name of the enum rather than it’s value as is the default. public class SingleOrArrayEnumConverter<T> : JsonConverter { public override bool CanConvert(Type objectType) { return Read more…
Single or array JSON converter. Often APIs will have actions where one of the parameters can be either a single object or an array of objects, in order to correctly serialize objects to JSON which can be accepted by the API a custom JsonConverter is needed. This code is borrowed Read more…
Session and TempData variables can be used in MVC controllers to pass variables between actions or from actions to views, however if you want to pass complex objects through using these variables the base classes need to be extended to serialize/deserialize the provided objects to/from JSON. Session TempData Once the Read more…