Remove empty string properties from json serialized object

Question

I have a class. It has several properties lets say 10. Out of these 10, 3 are filled with data remaining 7 are blank.i.e. empty strings \"\" Used this link as reference. I w

Answer 1

Although the accepted answers works, it also removes integer properties of zero value. I was looking for something more generic to work with large objects.

Found a great answer here: https://codearticles.ru/articles/2905?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

And consolidated it for our use case as below:

public class ShouldSerializeContractResolver : DefaultContractResolver
{
    public static readonly ShouldSerializeContractResolver Instance = new ShouldSerializeContractResolver();

    protected override JsonProperty CreateProperty(MemberInfo member, MemberSerialization memberSerialization)
    {
        JsonProperty property = base.CreateProperty(member, memberSerialization);

        if (property.PropertyType == typeof(string))
        {
            // Do not include emptry strings
            property.ShouldSerialize = instance =>
            {
                return !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(instance.GetType().GetProperty(member.Name).GetValue(instance, null) as string);
            };
        }
        else if (property.PropertyType == typeof(DateTime))
        {
            // Do not include zero DateTime
            property.ShouldSerialize = instance =>
            {
                return Convert.ToDateTime(instance.GetType().GetProperty(member.Name).GetValue(instance, null)) != default(DateTime);
            };
        }
        else if (typeof(IEnumerable).IsAssignableFrom(property.PropertyType))
        {
            // Do not include zero-length lists
            switch (member.MemberType)
            {
                case MemberTypes.Property:
                    property.ShouldSerialize = instance =>
                    {
                        var enumerable = instance.GetType().GetProperty(member.Name).GetValue(instance, null) as IEnumerable;
                        return enumerable != null ? enumerable.GetEnumerator().MoveNext() : false;
                    };
                    break;
                case MemberTypes.Field:
                    property.ShouldSerialize = instance =>
                    {
                        var enumerable = instance.GetType().GetField(member.Name).GetValue(instance) as IEnumerable;
                        return enumerable != null ? enumerable.GetEnumerator().MoveNext() : false;
                    };
                    break;
            }
        }
        return property;
    }
}

This can be used as follows:

JsonConvert.SerializeObject(o,
    Newtonsoft.Json.Formatting.None,
    new JsonSerializerSettings
    {
        NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore,
        ContractResolver = ShouldSerializeContractResolver.Instance
    });