How to Serialize a Dictionary<string,string> and not surround the value with quotes?

Question

Example model:

public class Thing
{
[JsonProperty("foo")]    
public string Foo {get;set;}
[JsonProperty("bars")]  
public Dictionary<string,string> Bars {get;set;}
}

i want the output to look like this:

{"foo":"Foo Value", "bars":{"key1":key1Value,"key2":key2Value}}

The reason I want the values of the Dictionary to be without quotes is so I can pull the value from the client via jquery:

{"foo":"Foo Value", "bars":{"key1":$('#key1').val(),"key2":$('#key2').val()}}

Is this possible using Json.Net?

Answer 1

This is my implementation I came up with:

public class DictionaryConverter : JsonConverter
    {
        public override bool CanConvert(Type objectType)
        {
            return objectType == typeof(Dictionary<string, string>);
        }

        public override object ReadJson(JsonReader reader, Type objectType, object existingValue, JsonSerializer serializer)
        {
            throw new NotImplementedException();
        }

        public override void WriteJson(JsonWriter writer, object value, JsonSerializer serializer)
        {
            var items = (Dictionary<string, string>)value;
           writer.WriteStartObject();
            foreach (var item in items)
            {

                writer.WritePropertyName(item.Key);
                writer.WriteRawValue(item.Value);

            }
            writer.WriteEndObject();
            writer.Flush();

        }
    }

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