ASP.NET MVC – How to Prevent JSON Serialization

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While developing an ASP.NET MVC app, I'm finding a few places where my JsonResult actions throw an exception "A circular reference was detected while serializing an object".

For now, I'm removing the references in question, but ideally I'd like to simply mark the property such that the JSON serializer ignores it.

Can anyone suggest how I might do this?

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[ScriptIgnore] should work for you.

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Check the source to see how JsonResult is implemented. Derive from ActionResult with your DataContractJsonSerializer implementation. Right now it won't be easy to use the Json() helper method, but you could create your own helper method in a layer supertype controller. Your new helper method would return your new ActionResult derivation.

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I think you just want to apply the ScriptIgnoreAttribute:

[ScriptIgnore]
public string IgnoreThis { get; set; }

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