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c#jsonentity-framework
Amir Mahmoodi
Amir Mahmoodi

Reputation: 100

Prevent serialize property name in json

I have two classes. First one is:

public int id { get; set; }
public List<AnotherClass> field1 { get; set; }

And the second one is

public class AnotherClass
{
    [JsonIgnore]
    public int id { get; set; }
    public string subfieldValue { get; set; }
}

when I make object from these classes and serialize them I get below JSON from them

{
    "id" : "1",
    "field1": [
         {
             "subfieldValue":"value1"
         },
         {
             "subfieldValue":"value2"
         }
     ]
 }

But I need below JSON how can I do that? Also I can't use List<string> for field1 type because I want to save this values to database with Entity Framework

{
    "id" : "1",
    "field1": ["value1", "value2"]
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 123

Answers (1)

AD.Net
AD.Net

Reputation: 13409

public int id { get; set; }
[JsonIgnore]
public List<AnotherClass> field1s { get; set; }
public List<string> field1
{
    get{return field1s.Select(f=>f. subfieldValue).ToList();}
    set{}
}

Also you probably should maintain the common C# naming convention like Id instead of id and change the json name through attribute with whatever you like in your json.

Upvotes: 3

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