I'm using JSON.NET as my main serializer.
This is my model, look that I've setted some JSONProperties and a DefaultValue.
public class AssignmentContentItem
{
[JsonProperty("Id")]
public string Id { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("Qty")]
[DefaultValue(1)]
public int Quantity { get; set; }
}
When I serialize a List<AssignmentContentItem>, it doing a good work:
private static JsonSerializerSettings s = new JsonSerializerSettings
{
DefaultValueHandling = DefaultValueHandling.Ignore,
NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore
};
OUTPUT:
[{"Id":"Q0"},{"Id":"Q4"},{"Id":"Q7"}]
But when I'd like to deserialize this jsonContent, the property Qty is always 0 and is not set to the default value. I mean, when I deserialize that jsonContent, as DefaultValue for Quantity should be one instead of 0.
public static List<AssignmentContentItem> DeserializeAssignmentContent(string jsonContent)
{
return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<AssignmentContentItem>>(jsonContent, s);
}
What should I do
In Deserialization, it does the opposite of Serialization which means it converts JSON string to custom . Net object. In the following code, it creates a JavaScriptSerializer instance and calls Deserialize() by passing JSON data. It returns a custom object (BlogSites) from JSON data.
The expected latency when downloading anything from a server to a client should increase as the size of the file increases.
JSON is a format that encodes objects in a string. Serialization means to convert an object into that string, and deserialization is its inverse operation (convert string -> object).
The DefaultValue attribute does not set the value of the property. See this question: .NET DefaultValue attribute
What you might be better off doing is setting the value in the constructor:
public class AssignmentContentItem
{
[JsonProperty("Id")]
public string Id { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("Qty")]
public int Quantity { get; set; }
public AssignmentContentItem()
{
this.Quantity = 1;
}
}
Where this line:
AssignmentContentItem item =
JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<AssignmentContentItem>("{\"Id\":\"Q0\"}");
Results in an AssignmentContentItem with its Quantity set to 1.
You can use the the DefaultValueHandling.Populate setting so that Json.Net will populate the created object with the default value.
public static List<AssignmentContentItem> DeserializeAssignmentContent(string jsonContent)
{
return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<AssignmentContentItem>>(jsonContent, new JsonSerializerSettings
{
DefaultValueHandling = DefaultValueHandling.Populate,
NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore
});
}
http://www.newtonsoft.com/json/help/html/T_Newtonsoft_Json_DefaultValueHandling.htm
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