I'm using json.net to serialize an object to a json string. Now I have a list of Objects which I like to serialize into a Json array. However, I'm unable to do that with json.net and hope someone can point out my mistake.
I have the following classes:
class PeopleList {
public Person inputs { get; set; }
}
class Person {
public String name { get; set; }
public int age { get; set; }
}
I'm using the following code to serialize the objects:
var json = new List<PeopleList>();
Person p1 = new Person { name = "Name 1", age = 20 };
json.Add(new PeopleList { inputs = p1 });
Person p2 = new Person { name = "Name 2", age = 30 };
json.Add(new PeopleList { inputs = p2 });
string jsonString = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(json, Formatting.None, new JsonSerializerSettings { NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore, Formatting = Formatting.Indented });
This gives me the following output:
[
{
"inputs": {
"name": "Name 1",
"age": 20
}
},
{
"inputs": {
"name": "Name 2",
"age": 30
}
}
]
Here is what I actually want:
[
{
"inputs": [
{
"name": "Name 1",
"age": 20
}
]
},
{
"inputs": [
{
"name": "Name 2",
"age": 30
}
]
}
]
As you see I need every object in my list encapsulated with []. How can I achieve that with Json.net? Thanks!
inputs
into a list or an array if you want it to be an array in JSON also