When serializing object to JSON using Newtonsoft it’s possible to change the naming of the properties by updating the serializer naming conventions as detailed here. It’s also possible to create your own custom naming strategy if none of the inbuild ones do the dop. This can be done by inheriting Read more…
If you are returning a JSON representation of an object from an MVC controller it may be necessary to determine how the JSON is formatted. This can be done using the JsonSerializerSettings object like so. This used to work as is with version 2 of .NET Core but with the Read more…
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 name and value. However, some Read more…
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.
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 from this stack overflow article. Read more…