I am trying to serialize a PagedList object ( https://github.com/martijnboland/MvcPaging/blob/master/src/MvcPaging/PagedList.cs ) to Json, like this:
PagedList<Product> pagedList = new PagedList<Product>(products, (page - 1), pageSize);
string json = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(pagedList);
If I use the above code, in the result I get an array of Product objects serialized properly. However the properties below (of PagedList) are not being included in the Json result:
public bool HasNextPage { get; }
public bool HasPreviousPage { get; }
public bool IsFirstPage { get; }
public bool IsLastPage { get; }
public int ItemEnd { get; }
public int ItemStart { get; }
public int PageCount { get; }
public int PageIndex { get; }
public int PageNumber { get; }
public int PageSize { get; }
public int TotalItemCount { get; }
They are not being serialized but they are part of PagedList.
Does anyone know why? And how could I include those properties in the serialization?
Thanks
The serializer sees that PagedList is enumerable, so it serializes it to a JavaScript array. To make this easier to deal with I expose a GetMetaData()
function on the PagedList object that will return a MetaData object containing exactly the fields you mentioned above. This means you can serialize your pagedlist like so:
string json = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new{
items = pagedList,
metaData = pagedList.GetMetaData()
});
This should result in a JSON object like so:
{
"Items": [
{ ... },
{ ... },
{ ... }
],
"MetaData": {
"PageSize": 1,
"PageCount": 2,
"HasNextPage": true,
...
}
}