Allowing Newtonsoft's JsonConvert access to internal getter/setters

Question

I have a class with internal getters/setters to prevent the user from accessing this functionality (I'm working with a REST api). However, this also means that JsonConvert doesn't have access to them. How can I allow JsonConvert access to the internal functionality?

Answer 1

You should be able to decorate them with the JsonPropertyAttribute.

void Main()
{
    var x = new Test();
    Console.WriteLine(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(x));
}

// Define other methods and classes here
public class Test 
{
    public Test()
    {
        TestProp = "test";
    }

    [JsonProperty]
    internal string TestProp { get; set; }
}

Output: {"TestProp":"test"}

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