It’s common to have description attributes on Enum types. This allows adding a longer description string for each Enum value. In one of my recent projects, I have a Web API that needs to accept this description value from the JSON request body and map to the correct Enum value. In this post, I’m going … [Read more…]
I had to unit test a method that calls a service which returns an interface type. This returned interface is then serialised into JSON string and stored into to some database. This is an example of such method This is the example of the unit test I thought serialising any mock object to JSON should … [Read more…]
In my project at work, I come across a function where I have to deserialise a Json string to an anonymous object. For Json serialisation in this project, we always use the following Json serialisation settings. I expect the result anonymous object would ignore null properties but they are included. See example below This is … [Read more…]
I have a generated WCF client with class similar to the sample below In my unit test, I instantiate an instance of SampleClass with a value of Cost field but without setting the CostFieldSpecified to true. When I serialise it to Json string, the Cost field’s value is 0 instead of the value I set … [Read more…]