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Gaurav Tiwari
Gaurav Tiwari

Reputation: 103

c#: Serializing an object having interface as properties in readable format

I searched, but couldn't find a satisfying answer. I know there are serializers like: DataContractJsonSerializer, JavaScriptSerializer to do that. But these required a weird requirement of specifying 'KnownType', which is not possible in my scenario as object i am serializing belongs to generic library, and actual implementations of interface could come from client. Any suggestions ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 105

Answers (2)

Vivek Jain
Vivek Jain

Reputation: 3889

Json.Net has a method SerializeObject. This would do the job for you.

It's signature is: 

public static string SerializeObject(object value);

usage:

using Newtonsoft.Json;

...

string jsonData = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(obj);

Upvotes: 0

sroes
sroes

Reputation: 15053

ServiceStack has a JSON serializer which doesn't require specifying the known types:

var json = JsonSerializer.SerializeToString(myObj);

Or using extension methods you can call ToJson on any object:

var json = myObj.ToJson();

Upvotes: 1

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