Json.Net unexpected characters (“\”) when serializing my entities

Question

I am using the excellent Json.Net library to serialize my entities generated by entity framework. I use the following code to do so :

using (MyVoucherEntitie         


        

Answer 1

Does this one help? I used it in my WebService to return Json content:

private HttpContent ConvertToJsonContent(object content)
{
  string jsonObject = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(content, Newtonsoft.Json.Formatting.Indented);
  return new StringContent(jsonObject, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
}

If strings have a "\" the two "\\" will come back. You can avoid this by using Unescape

private HttpContent ConvertToJsonContent(object content)
{
  string jsonObject = Regex.Unescape(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(content, Newtonsoft.Json.Formatting.Indented));
  return new StringContent(jsonObject, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
}