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The JavaScript JSON Cookbook

The JavaScript JSON Cookbook

By : Ray Rischpater, Brian Ritchie
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The JavaScript JSON Cookbook

The JavaScript JSON Cookbook

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By: Ray Rischpater, Brian Ritchie

Overview of this book

If you're writing applications that move structured data from one place to another, this book is for you. This is especially true if you've been using XML to do the job because it's entirely possible that you could do much of the same work with less code and less data overhead in JSON. While the book's chapters make some distinction between the client and server sides of an application, it doesn't matter if you're a frontend, backend, or full-stack developer. The principles behind using JSON apply to both the client and the server, and in fact, developers who understand both sides of the equation generally craft the best applications.
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Encoding data as BSON using Json.NET

BSON encoding is a reasonable alternative to JSON if you have an implementation of an encoder and decoder on each side of the connection. Unfortunately, there's no good encoder and decoder available yet for JavaScript, but there are implementations for a number of other platforms, including .NET and C++. Let's look at how to encode a class using BSON with Json.NET in C#.

Getting ready

First, you'll need to have the Json.NET assembly available to your application. As you saw in the last chapter, in the recipe How to deserialize an object using Json.NET, the easiest way to do this is with NuGet. If you haven't already, add the Json.NET assembly to your solution using the steps in that recipe.

How to do it…

Using Json.NET to encode BSON is fairly simple, once you have a class you want to encode:

public class Record {
  public string Callsign { get; set; }
  public double Lat { get; set; }
  public double Lng { get; set; }
} 
…...

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