/// <summary>
/// Serializes the object to a json-object containing all properties of the object with their values.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="aiObject"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static string Serialize(object aiObject)
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
using (StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(sb))
using (NullJsonWriter njw = new NullJsonWriter(sw))
{
JsonSerializer ser = new JsonSerializer();
ser.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
ser.Serialize(njw, aiObject);
}
return(sb.ToString());
}
public static string Serialize(MainClass main)
{
// First, collect all instances of A
var collector = new TypeInstanceCollector <A>();
var collectionSettings = new JsonSerializerSettings {
PreserveReferencesHandling = PreserveReferencesHandling.Objects, Converters = new JsonConverter[] { collector }
};
using (var jsonWriter = new NullJsonWriter())
{
JsonSerializer.CreateDefault(collectionSettings).Serialize(jsonWriter, main);
}
// Now serialize a proxt class with the collected instances of A at the beginning, to establish reference ids for all instances of B.
var proxy = new RootProxy <MainClass, A> {
Data = main, Table = collector.InstanceList
};
var serializationSettings = new JsonSerializerSettings {
PreserveReferencesHandling = PreserveReferencesHandling.Objects
};
return(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(proxy, Formatting.Indented, serializationSettings));
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// Set up a dummy object with some data. The object also has a bunch
// of properties that are never set, so they have null values by default.
Foo foo = new Foo
{
String = "test",
Int = 123,
Decimal = 3.14M,
Object = new Bar {
Name = "obj1"
},
Array = new Bar[]
{
new Bar {
Name = "obj2"
}
}
};
// The serializer writes to the custom NullJsonWriter, which
// writes to the StringWriter, which writes to the StringBuilder.
// We could also use a StreamWriter in place of the StringWriter
// if we wanted to write to a file or web response or some other stream.
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
using (StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(sb))
using (NullJsonWriter njw = new NullJsonWriter(sw))
{
JsonSerializer ser = new JsonSerializer();
ser.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
ser.Serialize(njw, foo);
}
// Get the JSON result from the StringBuilder and write it to the console.
Console.WriteLine(sb.ToString());
}
