You could decorate the property you wish controlling its name with the [JsonProperty] attribute which allows you to specify a different name: using Newtonsoft.Json; // … [JsonProperty(PropertyName = “FooBar”)] public string Foo { get; set; } Documentation: Serialization Attributes
I am assuming you are not using Json.NET (Newtonsoft.Json NuGet package). If this the case, then you should try it. It has the following features: LINQ to JSON The JsonSerializer for quickly converting your .NET objects to JSON and back again Json.NET can optionally produce well formatted, indented JSON for debugging or display Attributes like … Read more
That was the best solution https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/hongyes/loop-reference-handling-in-web-api Fix 1: Ignoring circular reference globally (I have chosen/tried this one, as have many others) The json.net serializer has an option to ignore circular references. Put the following code in WebApiConfig.cs file: config.Formatters.JsonFormatter.SerializerSettings.ReferenceLoopHandling = Newtonsoft.Json.ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore; The simple fix will make serializer to ignore the reference which will cause a … Read more
An alternate solution using the JsonProperty attribute: [JsonProperty(NullValueHandling=NullValueHandling.Ignore)] // or [JsonProperty(“property_name”, NullValueHandling=NullValueHandling.Ignore)] // or for all properties in a class [JsonObject(ItemNullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore)] As seen in this online doc.
Json.NET does this… string json = @”{“”key1″”:””value1″”,””key2″”:””value2″”}”; var values = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, string>>(json); More examples: Serializing Collections with Json.NET