What is the proper way to wrap a JSON object in another object?

Question

I ran into this problem earlier when I create a data model that will later be serialized into a JSON string, but I want the class containing the properties to also be serialized. See the example below:

I have a data model:

public class MyModel { [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "Prop1")] public string Property1 { get; set; } [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "Prop2")] public string Property2 { get; set; } } 

To serialize later:

 { "Prop1":"Some Value", "Prop2":"Some Value" } 

Is there any way to do serialization:

 { "MyModel": { "Prop1":"Some Value", "Prop2":"Some Value" } } 

What I'm doing right now that doesn't seem right is something like this to create a wrapper object for my JSON:

string object = @"{""ticket"":" + JsonConvert.SerializeObject(model) + @"}"

Is there some kind of attribute that I can add to my class:

 [SerializeThisClass, ProperName="MyModel"] public class MyModel { [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "Prop1")] public string Property1 { get; set; } [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "Prop2")] public string Property2 { get; set; } } 

Answer 1

 JsonConvert.SerializeObject( new{ MyModel = model}) 

should be ok

Answer 2

Add another class in which MyModel is a member of it, and then serialize the parent element.

 public class Parent { [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "MyModel")] public MyModel MyModel { get; set; } } 

Answer 3

you can achieve this with

  public class MyModel { [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "Prop1")] public string Property1 { get; set; } [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "Prop2")] public string Property2 { get; set; } } public class Wrapper{ [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "MyModel")] public MyModel myModel{get;set;} } 

then serialize the Wrapper object