Default camel case of property names in JSON serialization

Question

I have a bunch of classes that will be serialized to JSON at some point and for the sake of following both C# conventions on the back-end and JavaScript conventions on the front-end, I've been defining properties like this:

[JsonProperty(PropertyName="myFoo")]
public int MyFoo { get; set; }

So that in C# I can:

MyFoo = 10;

And in Javascript I can:

if (myFoo === 10)

But doing this for every property is tedious. Is there a quick and easy way to set the default way JSON.Net handles property names so it will automatically camel case unless told otherwise?

Answer 1

You can use the provided class Newtonsoft.Json.Serialization.CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver:

var serializer = new JsonSerializer
{
    ContractResolver = new CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver()
};
var jobj = JObject.FromObject(request, serializer);

In other words, you don't have to create a custom resolver yourself.