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copied!<p>I am using JSON.NET to serialize some c# objects into JSON (and then write to a file).</p> <p>My two main classes are:</p> <pre><code>public class Reservoir { private Well[] mWells; public Well[] wells { get { return mWells; } set { mWells = value; } } } </code></pre> <p>and</p> <pre><code>public Well() { private string mWellName; private double mY; private double mX; public string wellName { get { return mWellName; } set { mWellName = value; } } public double y { get { return mY; } set { mY = value; } } public double x { get { return mX; } set { mX = value; } } private Well[] mWellCorrelations; } </code></pre> <p>The problem is that the output looks like:</p> <pre><code>'{"wells":[{"wellName":"B-B10","y":217.04646503367468,"x":469.5776343820333,"wellCorrelations":[{"wellName":"B-B12","y":152.71005958395972,"x":459.02158140110026,"wellCorrelations":[{"wellName":"B-B13","y":475.0,"x":495.14804408905263,"wellCorrelations":[{"wellName":"B-B11","y":25.0,"x":50.0,"wellCorrelations":[]} </code></pre> <p>i.e. the associated wells of each well object are expanded as objects themselves and this becomes a serious problem of space and time when there lots of associated objects.</p> <p>I suppose I would have preferred something like:</p> <pre><code>'{"wells":[{"wellName":"B-B10","y":217.04646503367468,"x":469.5776343820333,"wellCorrelations":[{"wellName":"B-B12"}], {"wellName":"B-B11","y":217.04646503367468,"x":469.5776343820333,"wellCorrelations":[{"wellName":"B-B13"} </code></pre> <p>i.e maintaining only the well name as the link (assume its unique).</p> <p>Is there a way to do this with JSON.NET?</p> <p>You have set</p> <pre><code>serializer.ReferenceLoopHandling = ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore; </code></pre> <p>but it doesn't make any difference.</p>

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