Access the default JSON.NET serializer in ASP.NET Web API

Question

I have a ASP.NET web API project and since it does not support having 2 body parameters, I use a JObject parameter and then extract the actual parameters from it. Like this. ``` Public bool mymethod(JObject data){ myclassA a = data["a"].toObject(); myclassA b = data["b"].toObject(); } ``` But the 2 class types implement ISerializable and I need the JSON.NET to ignore it. I have set up the default JSON.NET serializer to do that and it works fine when serialization is done automatically. But I need to get a reference to the built in JSON.NET serializer so that I could use it like this in the above code. ``` myclassA b = data["b"].toObject(defaultSerializer); ``` Currently I create a new instance of the JSON.NET serializer and use it. But how can I get a reference to the default built in serializer in the asp.net WEB API ? Also I cannot change anything in class types as this is sort of a legacy app that I'm converting to web api. Thanks.

Accepted Answer

Try this:

```
JsonSerializer serializer = JsonSerializer.Create(Configuration.Formatters.JsonFormatter.SerializerSettings);
```

That should give you the same serializer Web API uses.

Access the default JSON.NET serializer in ASP.NET Web API

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