I have the following model
public class MyModel {
public string Title;
public string Description;
public string Date;
}
I now have an IEnumerable object containing many MyModels
{
data: [
{
Title: xxx,
Description: yyy,
Date: 2024-12-03
},
{
Title: xxx,
Description: yyy,
Date: 2024-12-04
},
{
Title: xxx,
Description: yyy,
Date: 2024-12-05
},
{
Title: xxx,
Description: yyy,
Date: 2024-12-06
}
]
}
What I would like to do is to serialize just the dates. How would I go about this? The following obviously doesn’t work.
var serialized = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(data.date)
2
If data is a collection of MyModel instances and you want just a collection of string instances of a single property of that model, you can use .Select() to project the former into the latter. For example:
var serialized = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(data.Select(d => d.Date));
Try This –
You can use LINQ to extract the dates from your IEnumerable and then serialize the resulting list of dates. Here’s how you can do it:
var dates = data.Select(m => m.Date);
var serialized = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(dates);
This will give you a JSON string containing an array of dates:
["2024-12-03", "2024-12-04", "2024-12-05", "2024-12-06"]