how to remove $id during JSON serialization

Question

I am using NewtonSoft.JSON. When running

JsonConvert.SerializeObject(myObject)

it is adding an

Answer 1

To remove the $id in JSON for my web API. I included [JsonObject(IsReference = false)] for my class objects and [JsonProperty(IsReference = false)] for my properties that are of object types. In my case the RespObj property is generic Type T and could take any object type I pass to it including collections so I had to use [JsonProperty(IsReference = false)] to get rid of the $id in the serialized JSON string.

I did not change my WebApiConfig because I was using the MVC help page for WEB API and it required me to have this configuration in my webApiconfig:

var json = GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.Formatters.JsonFormatter;
        json.SerializerSettings.PreserveReferencesHandling = Newtonsoft.Json.PreserveReferencesHandling.All;
        json.SerializerSettings.ReferenceLoopHandling = Newtonsoft.Json.ReferenceLoopHandling.Serialize;

The class object

[DataContract(IsReference = true)]
[JsonObject(IsReference = false)]
public class QMResponse where T : new()
{
    public QMResponse()
    {

    }

    /// 

    /// The response code
    /// 
 
    public string RespCode { get; set; }

    /// 

    /// The response message
    /// 
 
    public string RespMxg { get; set; }

    /// 

    /// The exception message
    /// 
 
    public string exception { get; set; }

    /// 

    /// The object type returned
    /// 
         
    [JsonProperty(IsReference = false)]
    public T RespObj { get; set; }

    /// 

    /// No of records returned
    /// 
 
    public long RecordCount { get; set; }

    /// 

    /// The Session Object
    /// 
 
    public string session_id { get; set; }

}