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David Robbins
David Robbins

Reputation: 10046

Ravendb 960 does not honor JsonIgnore with property of Dictionary<string, object>

Does JsonIgnore not work when a property has data? I have the followin class:

public class SomeObject
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public DateTime Created { get; set; }
        public List<string> ErrorList { get; set; }

        [JsonIgnore]
        public Dictionary<string, object> Parameters { get; set; }

        public SomeObject()
        {
            this.ErrorList = new List<string>();
            this.Parameters = new Dictionary<string, object>();
        }
    }

My expectation was that JsonIgnore would exclude properties from De- / Serialization. My RavenDB document has data. Am I missing something?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 350

Answers (1)

Matt Johnson-Pint
Matt Johnson-Pint

Reputation: 241890

If you are using any of the 1.2 (unstable) builds, you'll need to use the copy of JsonIgnoreAttribute that's in Raven.Imports.Newtonsoft.Json. All of Json.Net has been internalized.

The better approach would to not expose your parameters dictionary directly via a property, since you don't want it serialized. Perhaps a pattern like the following would suffice:

private readonly Dictionary<string, object> _parameters = new Dictionary<string, object>();
public Dictionary<string, object> GetParameters()
{
    return _parameters;
}

Personally, I try not to bring any external dependency into my domain objects, so I like to avoid things like [JsonIgnore] anyway.

EDIT

Sorry, I just saw in your title the 960 version. You may be encountering a different issue, which is that 960 relies on Json.Net 4.0.8. You may have better luck with the 972 client at http://nuget.org/packages/RavenDB.Client/1.0.972. Still, I think the better advice is to restructure to avoid needing it at all.

Upvotes: 2

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