Question

I have a simple object:

[DataContract]
public class MyClass
{
    [DataMember(Name = "MyClassNo")]
    public int MyClassNo { get; set; }
    [DataMember(Name = "MyName")]
    public string MyName { get; set; }
 }

When I serialize it over my web service I get

[
  {"MyClassNo": 1, "MyName": "Test1"},
  {"MyClassNo": 2, "MyName": "Test2"}
]

But what I want is the data without the property names included:

[
  {1, "Test1"},
  {2, "Test2"}
]

How do I achieve this?

*Edit – The Code I use to serialize is:

var myObj = MyOpenSQlConnection.Query<MyClass>(@"select MyClassNo, MyName from MyTable");
return myObj.ToList<MyClass>();

Note that I’m using Dapper-dot-net to map the sql results to my object

Answer 1

It is impossible to do this without writing your own serializer that serializes to something other than a property hash. Hashes are sequences of key-value fields and therefore must have unique keys for each field.

If you tried blank values for each key, as in:

{"": "apple", "": "banana", "": "coconut"}

then what you really have is just:

{"": "coconut"}

since each key will overwrite the one before it.

A better question is probably, “why do you want to serialize without the property names?” Especially in web-based environments, you’re going to want to know which value corresponds to which field.