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How to configure serialized JSON name in MVC4 web API?

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I use the MVC4 Web API to provide JSON data to the client. Since C # uses the Pascal naming convention, therefore, by default, the client receiving the JSON data is also in the Pascal naming convention, how can I configure it to return the camel naming convention to JSON?

Another problem is how to change the serialized name? for example, in C # I have a property called "Description", but to reduce the size of the data I would like to serialize it as "descr" in JSON, how to do it?

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I know this is an old post, but I thought it was worth adding a link to Json.Net:

API Reference

Nuget Page

You can set a name in which each property will be serialized to and using the JsonProperty attribute:

 public class MyModel { [JsonProperty("myJsonProp")] public string MyJsonProperty { get; set; } }

Using:

 //Serialize var json = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(instanceOfMyModel); //De-serialize var deserialized = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeSerializeOject<MyModel>(json);

As a result of Json:

 "{ "myJsonProp" : "value" }"
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This may not be the best solution, but in a similar situation, I just returned a formatted json string, which is in the format I want, instead of automatically serializing. You may find other serialization libraries that let you do what you want.

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