I have a List that I would like to convert to JSON using C# and Newtonsoft.
tags
[0]: "foo"
[1]: "bar"
Output to be:-
{"tags": ["foo", "bar"]}
Can anybody point me in the right direction please? I can convert the List to JSON okay but they key thing here is I need the "tags" part in the JSON which I do not get with a convert using JsonConvert.SerializeObject(tags)
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The below code wraps the list in an anonymous type, and thus generates what you are looking for.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
namespace Test
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var list = new List<string> {"foo", "bar"};
var tags = new {tags = list};
Console.WriteLine(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(tags));
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}