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POIs there a JavaScript (client-side) JSON library that integrates well with JSON.NET (server-side) and supports the "preserve references" feature?
 

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    <p>JSON.NET supports circular reference serialization by preserving all references with the following settings:</p> <pre><code>JsonSerializerSettings settings = new JsonSerializerSettings(); settings.ReferenceLoopHandling = ReferenceLoopHandling.Serialize; settings.PreserveReferencesHandling = PreserveReferencesHandling.All; </code></pre> <p>That allows the following code to run without errors, properly serializing and deserializing the object with its self-reference intact.</p> <pre><code>public class SelfReferencingClass { public string Name; public SelfReferencingClass Self; public SelfReferencingClass() {Name="Default"; Self=this;} } SelfReferencingClass s = new SelfReferencingClass(); string jsondata = JsonConvert.SerializeObject( d, settings ); s = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject&lt;SelfReferencingClass&gt;( jsondata, settings ); </code></pre> <p>The jsondata string looks like this:</p> <pre><code>{"$id":"1","Name":"Default","Self":{"$ref":"1"}} </code></pre> <p>The problem is... how is this feature of JSON.NET useful at all without a corresponding client side JavaScript library that can interpret these references, and also support encoding such references itself?</p> <p><strong>What client-side library (e.g. JSON.stringify) supports this feature/encoding using "$id" and "$ref" fields? If none exist, is there a known way to add support to an existing library?</strong></p> <p>Adding support myself would be a pretty straightforward two-pass process. First, deserialize the entire string, and as you create each object add it to a dictionary using its "$id" value as the key. When you encounter references (object consisting of just a "$ref" property) you could add it to a list of object+fieldname that you could go back over to replace each encountered reference by looking up its key in the final dictionary of created objects.</p>
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    1. COI've looked everywhere for a solution. There seems to be something called "dojo" (http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2008/06/17/json-referencing-in-dojo/) that has this kind of support too, but it's also server-side and it doesn't seem to include the "$" in the id field, so it's not even consistent with the way JSON.NET handles reference encoding.
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    2. COThe JSON 3 serializer http://bestiejs.github.io/json3/ also lacks cyclic reference support and will throw an error. Code comment is '// Cyclic structures cannot be serialized by `JSON.stringify`.'
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    3. COthis question contains the answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13782052/using-javascript-to-deserialize-references-in-a-complex-object-graph-from-signal
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