Make names of named tuples appear in serialized JSON responses

Question

Situation: I have multiple Web service API calls that deliver object structures. Currently, I declare explicit types to bind those object structures together. F

Answer 1

You have a little bid conflicting requirements

Question:

I have loads of these custom classes like MyType and would love to use a generic container instead

Comment:

However, what type would I have to declare in my ProducesResponseType attribute to explicitly expose what I am returning

Based on above - you should stay with types you already have. Those types provide valuable documentation in your code for other developers/reader or for yourself after few months.

From point of readability

[ProducesResponseType(typeof(Trip), 200)]

will be better then

[ProducesResponseType(typeof((double speed, int distance)), 200)]

From point of maintainability
Adding/removing property need to be done only in one place. Where with generic approach you will need to remember update attributes too.