How can I use a reserved keyword as an identifier in my JSON model class?

Question

I have never used Web API before, but I need a web service that will accept/return JSON objects and using this seemed like a reasonable thing. It looked pretty simple (if no

Answer 1

The class DropDownValues using camel convention:

class DropDownValues {
    public string[] values { get; set; }
    public string default { get; set; }
}

You can use prefix @ to passby but it is still not following C# coding convention.

The better solution which you can both avoid reserved keyword and still use C# coding convention is using CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver:

class DropDownValues {
    public string[] Values { get; set; }
    public string Default { get; set; }
}

And customize JsonFormatter to avoid convention mismatch between C# and json object as below:

var jsonFormatter = configuration.Formatters.JsonFormatter;
jsonFormatter.SerializerSettings = new JsonSerializerSettings()
{  
    ContractResolver = new CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver()
};