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How can I avoid serialization for an empty list or property with a default value?

April 26, 2017avoid Default list Property serialization value

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How can I avoid serialization for an empty list or property with a default value?

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There is an undocumented way of doing that, you need to create a method named ShouldSerialize where is replaced by the property name. This method should return a boolean that indicate if the property must be serialized or not. For exemple, if you have list with no item, there is no need to serialize an empty list.