I have an object that contains several properties that are a List of strings List or a dictionary of strings Dictionary
I have implemented this feature in the custom contract resolver of my personal framework (link to the specific commit in case the file will be moved later). It uses some helper methods and includes some unrelated code for custom references syntax. Without them, the code will be:
public class SkipEmptyContractResolver : DefaultContractResolver
{
public SkipEmptyContractResolver (bool shareCache = false) : base(shareCache) { }
protected override JsonProperty CreateProperty (MemberInfo member,
MemberSerialization memberSerialization)
{
JsonProperty property = base.CreateProperty(member, memberSerialization);
bool isDefaultValueIgnored =
((property.DefaultValueHandling ?? DefaultValueHandling.Ignore)
& DefaultValueHandling.Ignore) != 0;
if (isDefaultValueIgnored
&& !typeof(string).IsAssignableFrom(property.PropertyType)
&& typeof(IEnumerable).IsAssignableFrom(property.PropertyType)) {
Predicate
This contract resolver will skip serialization of all empty collections (all types implementing ICollection and having Length == 0), unless DefaultValueHandling.Include is specified for the property or the field.