JavaScriptSerializer - JSON serialization of enum as string

Question

I have a class that contains an enum property, and upon serializing the object using JavaScriptSerializer, my json result contains the integer valu

Answer 1

Asp.Net Core 3 with System.Text.Json

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{

    services
        .AddControllers()
        .AddJsonOptions(options => 
           options.JsonSerializerOptions.Converters.Add(new JsonStringEnumConverter())
        );

    //...
 }

Answer 2

This version of Stephen's answer doesn't change the name in the JSON:

[DataContract(
    Namespace = 
       "http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Whatever")]
class Person
{
    [DataMember]
    int Age { get; set; }

    Gender Gender { get; set; }

    [DataMember(Name = "Gender")]
    string GenderString
    {
        get { return this.Gender.ToString(); }
        set 
        { 
            Gender g; 
            this.Gender = Enum.TryParse(value, true, out g) ? g : Gender.Male; 
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

Just in case anybody finds the above insufficient, I ended up settling with this overload:

JsonConvert.SerializeObject(objToSerialize, Formatting.Indented, new Newtonsoft.Json.Converters.StringEnumConverter())

Answer 4

        Person p = new Person();
        p.Age = 35;
        p.Gender = Gender.Male;
        //1.  male="Male";
        string male = Gender.Male.ToString();

        p.Gender = Gender.Female;

        //2.  female="Female";
        string female = Enum.GetName(typeof(Gender), p.Gender);

        JObject jobj = new JObject();
        jobj["Age"] = p.Age;
        jobj["Gender"] = male;
        jobj["Gender2"] = female;

        //you result:  josn= {"Age": 35,"Gender": "Male","Gender2": "Female"}
        string json = jobj.ToString();

Answer 5

The combination of Omer Bokhari and uri 's answers is alsways my solution since the values that I want to provide is usually different from what I have in my enum specially that I would like to be able to change my enums if I need to.

So if anyone is interested, it is something like this:

public enum Gender
{
   [EnumMember(Value = "male")] 
   Male,
   [EnumMember(Value = "female")] 
   Female
}

class Person
{
    int Age { get; set; }
    [JsonConverter(typeof(StringEnumConverter))]
    Gender Gender { get; set; }
}

Answer 6

You can create JsonSerializerSettings with the call to JsonConverter.SerializeObject as below:

var result = JsonConvert.SerializeObject
            (
                dataObject,
                new JsonSerializerSettings
                {
                    Converters = new [] {new StringEnumConverter()}
                }
            );