System.Text.Json – How to modify existing type info resolver

There are some situations in which creating a whole new IJsonTypeInfoResolver will seem overkill, when the default (or any other already defined) type info serializer could do the job with only one or two small modifications.

Until now, you could play with the DefaultJsonTypeInfoResolver.Modifiers property for the default type info resolver, but you didn’t have anything built-in for any developer-defined type info resolvers or resolvers coming from packages.

For these cases in particular, starting with .NET 8, we have a new extension method which allows us to easily introduce modifications to arbitrary IJsonTypeInfoResolver serialization contracts. The extension method can of course be used in combination with the default type info resolver as well.

public static IJsonTypeInfoResolver WithAddedModifier(
    this IJsonTypeInfoResolver resolver, 
    Action<JsonTypeInfo> modifier)
Code language: C# (cs)

This will create for you an instance of JsonTypeInfoResolverWithAddedModifiers (an IJsonTypeInfoResolver) capable of handling your schema modifications.

Let’s look at a simple usage example, assuming an arbitrary MyTypeInfoResolver:

var options = new JsonSerializerOptions
{
    TypeInfoResolver = new MyTypeInfoResolver()
        .WithAddedModifier(typeInfo =>
        {
            foreach (JsonPropertyInfo prop in typeInfo.Properties)
                prop.Name = prop.Name.ToLower();
        })
};
Code language: C# (cs)