Returning camelCase JSON from ASP.NET Web API
Loving ASP.NET Web API but not loving the .NET-centric PascalCase JSON it produces?
// a .NET class like this...
public class Book
{
public int NumberOfPages { get; set; }
public string Author { get; set; }
}
// ... should be serialized into JSON like this
{
"numberOfPages": 42,
"author": "JK Rowling"
}
Luckily this is quite easy to fix with a custom formatter. I started with Henrik Nielsen’s custom Json.NET formatter and changed it slightly to use a camelCase resolver and also indent the JSON output (just for developers; we would turn this off once the app was deployed). You can grab the code here: https://gist.github.com/2012642
Then just swap out the default JSON formatter in your global.asax.cs:
var config = GlobalConfiguration.Configuration; // Replace the default JsonFormatter with our custom one var index = config.Formatters.IndexOf(config.Formatters.JsonFormatter); config.Formatters[index] = new JsonCamelCaseFormatter();March 10, 2012
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