Ignoring property in a class for response resource - Openrasta

Question

I'm using Openrasta framework. I've simple POCO which is used in my API and this will be sent as ResponseResource to client. It looks like below:

Public class User
{
  Public int Id { get; set; }
  Public string Name { get; set; }
  Public string Code { get; set; }
}

When sending response to user I dont want to send property "Id" back to the user. How can I make openrasta serialzers to ignore this property? I tried putting XmlIgnore attribute for this property but it didn't work.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Since [XmlIgnore] isn't working, I am guessing you are using either the Json or XmlDataContract codecs. These are based on DataContractSerializer, in which case the mechanism to control the serialization is to mark the type as [DataContract], at which point inclusion becomes opt in rather than automatic, i.e.

[DataContract]
public class User
{
  public  int Id { get; set; }
  [DataMember]
  public string Name { get; set; }
  [DataMember]
  public string Code { get; set; }
}