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Asked: 2026-05-30T12:50:16+00:00

I have an entity framework entity that i want to serialize as a json

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I have an entity framework entity that i want to serialize as a json object. I looked around and found out that json.net (http://james.newtonking.com/projects/json-net.aspx) should be able to serialize objects with circular references “out of the box”. So i tried using

string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(/* my ef entity */);

But im still getting the same error. The problem might be that i need to use ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore and a ContractResolver, but im not sure how to use them. Any help is much appreciated! Thanks

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  1. Editorial Team

    My solution was to simply remove the parent reference on my child entities.

    So in my model, I selected the relationship and changed the Parent reference to be Internal rather than Public.

    May not be an ideal solution for all, but worked for me.

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