将EF对象序列化为JSON - ASP.NET MVC

时间:2012-07-24 15:42:43

标签: asp.net-mvc json entity-framework

我有一个EF对象:

public class User
{

    [Key, Column("userid", TypeName = "int")]
    public Int32 UserId { get; set; }

    [Column("username", TypeName = "varchar")]
    public String UserName { get; set; }

    [Column("password", TypeName = "varchar")]
    public String Password { get; set; }

    [Column("name", TypeName = "varchar")]
    public String Name { get; set; }

    [Column("surname", TypeName = "varchar")]
    public String Surname { get; set; }

    [Column("email", TypeName = "varchar")]
    public String Email { get; set; }

    [Column("dob", TypeName = "datetime")]
    public Nullable<DateTime> Dob { get; set; }

    [Column("notes", TypeName = "nvarchar")]
    public String Notes { get; set; }

    [Column("masterentity", TypeName = "varchar")]
    public String MasterEntity { get; set; }

    [Column("propertyid", TypeName = "int")]
    public Nullable<Int32> PropertyId { get; set; }

    [Column("boardmember", TypeName = "bit")]
    public Boolean BoardMember { get; set; }

    [Column("occupiesunit", TypeName = "bit")]
    public Boolean OccupiesUnit { get; set; }

    [Column("systemuser", TypeName = "bit")]
    public Boolean SystemUser { get; set; }

    [Column("isactive", TypeName = "bit")]
    public Boolean IsActive { get; set; }


    #region Foreing Keys

    [ForeignKey("MasterEntity")]
    public virtual Entity CurrentMasterEntity { get; set; }

    #endregion

}

在客户端,我试图将模型序列化为像这样的JSON对象:

var jsonUser = @(Html.Raw(Json.Encode(this.Model))); 

我收到以下错误:

A circular reference was detected while serializing an object of type ....

我意识到如果我删除 Foreing Keys Fluent API

[ForeignKey("MasterEntity")]
public virtual Entity CurrentMasterEntity { get; set; }

然后它完美无缺。所以似乎与其他实体有关系的实体或对象不能使用JSON序列化。

任何人都有解决这个问题的好方法吗? IS EF 5.0会解决这个问题吗?

非常感谢。

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:0)

只要在它们之间没有循环引用,就可以序列化具有关系的实体。这意味着如果您A指向B,而B指向A,则不会。我怀疑你的CurrentMasterEntity将永远等于实体本身,或者可能存在循环图(A是B的主控,B是A的主控),所以你有一个数据错误或两个定向导航(通常以Entity ParentICollection<Entity> Children形式出现)。如果这是数据错误,请修复它。如果您有双向导航,则必须选择一个将被序列化的属性,并使用[ScriptIgnore]标记其他属性,以便不会序列化。

但如果您在客户端确实不需要CurrentMasterEntity,请使用前面提到的[ScriptIgnore]进行标记。