Serializing strings containing apostrophes with JSON.Net

Question

I am using JSON.Net as my serializer for a large MVC 3 web application in c# and the Razor view engine. For the initial page load in one view, there is a large amount of JSO

Answer 1

You can create custom JsonConverter like this:

public class EscapeQuoteConverter : JsonConverter 
{
    public override void WriteJson(JsonWriter writer, object value, JsonSerializer serializer) 
    {
        writer.WriteValue(value.ToString().Replace("'", "\\'"));
    }

    public override object ReadJson(JsonReader reader, Type objectType, object existingValue, JsonSerializer serializer) 
    {
        var value = JToken.Load(reader).Value();
        return value.Replace("\\'", "'");
    }

    public override bool CanConvert(Type objectType) 
    {
        return objectType == typeof(string);
    }
}

To use this only for Name property specify it by attribute:

public class Person 
{
    [JsonConverter(typeof(EscapeQuoteConverter))]
    public string Name { get; set; } 
}

To apply Converter to all strings use:

JsonConvert.SerializeObject(person, Formatting.Indented, new EscapeQuoteConverter());