In one component of my current project, I need to grab the value of a property by name from a given JSON string. This JSON string is dynamic and I don’t know which strongly typed class to deserialise it to. Below is the function I ended up with to solve this problem.
I have a class with a complex object property that has a lot of properties and a lot of nested complex properties in it. Other properties in this class will be stored in SQL the normal way, relational and one column per property. Given the complexity of this particular property, I want to store it … [Read more…]
I recently have to build a class which has a property of type object. This property can be one of three types based on another property in the same class. Serialising Transaction class is fine and would just work. However, deserialising it would be a problem. For the Account property, it would not know which … [Read more…]
In my recent project, we have an Address class that is complex and has many properties in it. This class also has an ID property. We have a requirement where we need to replace this object with the ID string of the address wherever the address is used in any object when serialising to JSON. … [Read more…]
I came across this exception in the past after upgrading .NET Core 2.2 to 3.0. I didn’t write about it before but recently I saw this exception again in our error logs so I thought I’d write about this and how to solve it. If you have a model like this That Enumerable.Empty<Author>() is to … [Read more…]
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…]
For the project at work, we have these dynamic document forms each has their own model that Json string data posted back from the front end will be deserialised into. We don’t want to manually trim all the properties in each model when we consume them, so we thought we’d add a custom Json converter … [Read more…]
There are a couple ways to verify if 2 Json strings are equivalent. Using DeepEquals on JObject There’s a static function DeepEquals on JObject which compares the values of 2 tokens and all their descendant tokens. We can parse the Json strings into JObject and then use this function to compare them. Using FluentAssertions Another … [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…]
Recently at work, I have a requirement to merge two json strings. Basically, I want to achieve what the spread operator does in Javascript.For examples, let’s say we have a json string as below. And we want to merge the below json string The result we want to achieve is as followed After some research, … [Read more…]