When serializing C# objects to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), by default, all public properties are serialized. If you don't want some of them to appear in the resulting JSON, you have several options. In this video, James and Matt show you all of the built in options you can use to control this.

Chapters:

00:00 - What are extra JSON properties

01:30 - Ignoring a single property with JsonIgnore

04:00 - Ignoring read only fields and properties

05:30 - Ignoring default and null values

09:08 - JsonIgnore Conditions

12:40 - Always ignore everything

14:00 - Wrap-up

Resources:

Docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/standard/serialization/system-text-json/ignore-properties

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