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

The simplest solution is using dynamic code, i.e. C#'s ExpandoObject to wrap your response in the format you expect the API to have

    public JsonResult GetSomething(int param)
    {
        var (speed, distance) = DataLayer.GetData(param);
        dynamic resultVM = new ExpandoObject();
        resultVM.speed= speed;
        resultVM.distance= distance;
        return Json(resultVM);
    }

The return type of "GetData" is

(decimal speed, int distance)

This gives a Json response in the way you expect it to