Snippets - Creating Customer Json Property Naming Policies in ASP.Net Core

As of .Net Core 3.0, the default json serializer is from System.Text.Json using JsonSerializer.Serialize . The default behavior for serializing property names is use the object property name. To use camel case, you’d use the builtin policy JsonNamingPolicy we showing below

var jsonSerializerOptions = new JsonSerializerOptions
{
    PropertyNamingPolicy = JsonNamingPolicy.CamelCase,
    WriteIndented = true
};
var result = JsonSerializer.Serialize<TodoItem>(todo, jsonSerializerOptions);

The official docs goes more detail on custom property naming.

If you were to implement your own property naming policy, all you need to do is implement the abstract class JsonNamingPolicy and implement the abstract method ConvertName. Here is an example:

public class MyCustomPropertyNameingJsonPolicy : JsonNamingPolicy
{
    public override string ConvertName(string name)
    {
        // Do something with the string
        return name.ToUpper();
    }
}

Here is how you’d use it:

serializerOptions = new JsonSerializerOptions
{
    PropertyNamingPolicy = new LowerCamelCaseJsonPolicy()
};