contains cycles and cannot be serialized if reference tracking is disabled, json.net and webapi

问题

I'm getting the error:

 Object graph for type 'System.Collections.Generic.List`1[[Proj.Model.Prom, Proj.Model, 
 Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null]]' contains cycles and cannot be 
 serialized if reference tracking is disabled.

Reading about that, seems to be the serializer, but Json.Net claims to be the solution and I've read WebApi and Framework 4.5 has it by default. So Is it coming by default? If so, Why I'm still getting that error?

Thanks! Guillermo.

EDIT: Adding code

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data.Spatial;

namespace Proj.Model
{
    public class Prom
    {
        public Prom()
        {
            this.Stores = new List<Store>();
            this.Branches = new List<Branch>();
            this.Products = new List<Product>();
        }

        public int Id { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public DbGeography Location { get; set; }
        public string Latitude { get; set; }
        public string Longitude { get; set; }
        public int StateId { get; set; }
        public int CategoryId { get; set; }

        public virtual ICollection<Store> Stores { get; set; }
        public virtual ICollection<Branch> Branches { get; set; }
        public virtual ICollection<Product> Products { get; set; }

        public virtual Category Category { get; set; }
        public virtual State  State  { get; set; }

    }
}

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace Proj.Model
{
    public class Category
    {
        public Category()
        {
            this.Proms = new List<Prom>();
        }

        public int Id { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public string Description { get; set; }

        public virtual ICollection<Prom> Proms { get; set; }
    }
}

Then running something like this returns the error

public IEnumerable<Category> GetList(int estadoId, string idTiposTarjetasList)
{
    var ids = "1,2,3,4".Split(',');
    var intIds = ids.Select(int.Parse);

    var Categories = Uow.Categorias.GetAllIncluding(c => c.Proms).ToList();
    foreach (var category in Categories)
    {
        var proms = category.Proms.Where(p => intIds.Contains(p.Id) && p.StateId == stateId).ToList();
        category.Proms = proms;
    }
    return Categories
}

回答1:

By default, WebApi set the 'PreserveReferencesHandling' to None.

You can configure the Json.NET SerializerSettings in WebApiConfig.cs:

config.Formatters.JsonFormatter.SerializerSettings.PreserveReferencesHandling = 
    Newtonsoft.Json.PreserveReferencesHandling.All;

回答2:

The following helped me:

config.Formatters.JsonFormatter.SerializerSettings.ReferenceLoopHandling = Newtonsoft.Json.ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore;
config.Formatters.JsonFormatter.SerializerSettings.PreserveReferencesHandling = Newtonsoft.Json.PreserveReferencesHandling.None;

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13480760/contains-cycles-and-cannot-be-serialized-if-reference-tracking-is-disabled-json