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Json – How to serialize object without curly braces in .Net Core

I am using NewtonJson for serializing object. I want to serlize a object which has two properties one is normal string and the second property is dictionary of some items.

I am expecting a result something like this:

"Company": {
            "Id": "1393",
            "emp1": {
                "email": "[email protected]",
                "firstName": "test1",
                "lastName": "test1",
                "title": "Mr"
            },
            "emp2": {
                "email": "[email protected]",
                "firstName": "test2",
                "lastName": "test2",
                "title": "Ms"
            }
        }

but I am getting output like below:

"Company": {
            "Id": "1393",
            "employees": {
                "emp1": {
                    "email": "[email protected]",
                    "firstName": "test1",
                    "lastName": "test1",
                    "title": "Mr"
                 },
                 "emp2": {
                    "email": "[email protected]",
                    "firstName": "test2",
                    "lastName": "test2",
                    "title": "Ms"
              }
            }
        }

Here is my Code:

public string GetCompany(Dictionary<string, Employee> employees)
        {
            var company = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new
            {
                Id = "1393",
                employees
            });

            return company;
        }
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Answers


  1. 0

    By creating the anonymous object, your adding another property named employees.

    Why not just append Id to the dictionary?

    e.g.

    var employeesCopy = employees
    .ToDictionary(kvp => kvp.Key, kvp => (object)kvp.Value);

employeesCopy["Id"] = "1393";

var company = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(employeesCopy);

    This makes a copy of employees and adds a new key "Id" before serialising.

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  2. 0

    Create a Poco (Plain Old C# Object). Make sure to add [JsonExtensionData] attribute.

    public class Poco
{
    public string Id { get; set; } = string.Empty;

    [JsonExtensionData]
    public Dictionary<string, object> Employees { get; set; } = new();
}

    And then serialize it

    var employees = new Dictionary<string, object>()
{
    { Path.GetRandomFileName(), new Employee() },
    { Path.GetRandomFileName(), new Employee() }
};

var company = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new Poco { Id = "1393", Employees = employees });
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  3. 0

    Unfortunately it is not clear what is your goal. If you just need a json string , you can try this code

    public string GetCompany(string id, Dictionary<string, Employee> employees)
{
    var e = JObject.FromObject(employees);
    e.AddFirst(new JProperty( "Id", id));
    return e.ToString();
}

    but probably you need something bigger, so maybe it makes some sense to create a JObject in order to add it to another part of you data. In the end you can serialize it calling ToString() function

    public JObject GetCompany(string id, Dictionary<string, Employee> employees)
{
    JObject jo = JObject.FromObject(employees);
    jo.AddFirst(new JProperty( "Id", id));
    return jo;
}
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