How to get a friendly attribute name in API payload response?-CodePudding

I want the get request to return a friendly names instead of the actual db column names. Is it possible?

my model class

public class Employee
    {
        public int EmployeeID { get; set; } 

        [DisplayName("First Name")]
        public string FirstName { get; set; } = string.Empty;

        public string LastName { get; set; } = string.Empty;

        public string Phone { get; set; } = string.Empty;

        public string Email { get; set; } = string.Empty;
}

payload that is generated. Note that the First Name is not changed

{
  "employeeID": 1501,
  "firstName": "Syed Omar",
  "lastName": "Khan",
  "phone": "9234567891",
  "email": "Syed [email protected]",
}

CodePudding user response：

If you want to change json property name of serialized class you can use corresponding attribute depending on json library used. For System.Text.Json it would be JsonPropertyNameAttribute. For Newtonsoft's Json.NET - JsonPropertyAttribute:

[JsonPropertyName("First Name")]
public string FirstName { get; set; } = string.Empty;

[JsonProperty("First Name")]
public string FirstName { get; set; } = string.Empty;

CodePudding user response：

I got it by decorating the property name like below

[JsonPropertyName("Employee ID")]
public int EmployeeID { get; set; }

[JsonPropertyName("First Name")] 
public string FirstName { get; set; } = string.Empty;