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Roman Koliada
Roman Koliada

Reputation: 5122

Set JsonProperty PropertyName dynamically

I' m developing some WebAPI and have to return HttpResponseMessage with 2 standart service fields and one field which contains an array. Something like this: 

{
  field1:"test",
  field2:123,
  array:[{},{}]
}

But actually i need several responses which should differ only in name of array property:

{
  field1:"test",
  field2:123,
  someArray:[{},{}]
}
and
{
  field1:"test",
  field2:123,
  someOtherArray:[{},{}]
}

Type of elemnts in array is the same in each response. So I want to create one class for such type of responses and just change its PropertyName. Like this one:

public class Response
{
    public int field2 { get; set; }

    public string field1 { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty(PropertyName = ???)]
    public IEnumerable<SomeType> Array { get; set; }
}

How can I implement it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1670

Answers (1)

Stephen Brickner
Stephen Brickner

Reputation: 2602

You could also consider using a dictionary.

[HttpGet, Route("api/yourroute")]
public IHttpActionResult GetSomeData()
{
    try
    {
       var data = new Dictionary<string, dynamic>();
       data.Add("field1", "test");
       data.Add("field2", 123);

       var fieldName = someCondition == true? "someArray" : "someOtherArray";
       data.Add(fieldName, yourArray);

       return Ok(data);
    }
    catch
    {
        return InternalServerError();
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

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