Using the Newtonsoft.Json library, imagine I have got
public class Test
{
public Object Obj { get; set; }
}
Now, attempting to serialize this like so
var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new Test(){ Obj = new Uri(@"http://www.google.com") });
...will give me the following JSON
{
"Obj": "http://www.google.com"
}
Which is clearly not enough information to deserialize this back into a Uri object, and in fact, attempting to deserialize it will give me a String object instead.
Is there any existing way to correctly serialize and deserialize the type information here so that the object will be read back in as a Uri instead of a String? In this particular case, I am only attempting to interop with a .NET application and it is extremely important that the exact types are deserialized.
Thanks in advance.