RestSharp serialization to JSON, object is not using SerializeAs attribute as expected

Question

I am using RestSharp (version 104.4 via NuGet) to make calls to a Rest Web Service. I have designed a set of objects (POCO) which matches resources exposed

Answer 1

I came across this issue, and solved this a slightly different way than above, wanted to note it here.

We have a factory class that builds all of our requests. Looks like the following

public IRestRequest CreatePutRequest(string resource, TBody body)
{
    var request = new RestRequest(resource)
    {
        Method = Method.PUT,
    };

    request.AddParameter("application/json", Serialize(body), ParameterType.RequestBody);
    return request;
}

Rather than use the AddJsonBody and AddBody methods against the request, both of which cause serialisation, I used AddParameter which will add the object you pass in without serialisation. I created a method called Serialise, which uses JSON.net to serialise our class.

private object Serialize(T item)
{
    return JsonConvert.SerializeObject(item);
}

This then allows us to use JSON.net's JsonProperty annotation above your propertys. Here is an example -

public class Example
{

    [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "name")]
    public string Name { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "created")]
    public DateTime Created { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "updated")]
    public DateTime Updated { get; set; }

}