Installation

Install-Package Serialization.SubclassJsonConverter.Core

TLDR

Have some inheritance you want to deserialize?

• use SubclassJsonConverter for subclasses with different structures
• use SubclassJsonConverter + your own type resolver implementing ITypeResolver interface for subclasses with same structure

Why?

From time to time you need to model your data in the inheritance-fashion approach (doesn't matter if you chose such or were given ;-)) and then deserialization of the subclasses might be troublesome.

How?

Nothing fancy - this package is supposed to solve this by exposing a simple SubclassJsonConverter that uses underyling subclass structure to determine the output type.

When structure is shared between different subclasses then it's not sufficient to use bare SubclassJsonConverter.

In order to work against that, deserialization needs some help to determine the underyling type. ITypeResolver interface is exposed so that it can be implemented in your resolver which then might be passed as an argument to the JsonConverter attribute on your base class.

Usage

using Newtonsoft.Json;

[JsonConverter(typeof(SubclassJsonConverter), typeof(Job))]
public class Job
{
    public Guid Id { get; set; }
}

public RegularJob : Job
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

public SpecialJob : Job
{
    public string SpecialPropertyName { get; set; }
}