poco-mapping.md

Mapping JSON fields to POCO properties

While not an actually responsibility of the LINQ provider, the default serialization library, Newtonsoft.Json, supports field the following serialization attributes:

• DataContractAttribute
• DataMemberAttribute
• NonSerializedAttribute
• All Newtonsoft.Json attributes.

Please refer to their documentation for issues regarding serialization.

Mixing of attribute types is supported by Newtonsoft.Json. Here is an example of mixing JsonPropertyAttribute and DataMemberAttribute:

public class Beer
{
    [Key]
    [JsonProperty("name")]
    public string Name { get; set; }

    [DataMember(Name = "abv")]
    public decimal Abv { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("ibu")]
    public decimal Ibu { get; set; }

    // ...
}

See Custom JSON Serializers for information on using a custom JSON serializer.