Newtonsoft.Json/Src/Newtonsoft.Json.Tests/Documentation/Samples/Linq/SerializeWithLinq.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Web;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;

namespace Newtonsoft.Json.Tests.Documentation.Samples.Linq
{
  public class SerializeWithLinq
  {
    #region Types
    public class BlogPost
    {
      public string Title { get; set; }
      public string AuthorName { get; set; }
      public string AuthorTwitter { get; set; }
      public string Body { get; set; }
      public DateTime PostedDate { get; set; }
    }
    #endregion

    public void Example()
    {
      #region Usage
      IList<BlogPost> blogPosts = new List<BlogPost>
        {
          new BlogPost
            {
              Title = "Json.NET is awesome!",
              AuthorName = "James Newton-King",
              AuthorTwitter = "JamesNK",
              PostedDate = new DateTime(2013, 1, 23, 19, 30, 0),
              Body = @"<h3>Title!</h3>
                       <p>Content!</p>"
            }
        };

      JArray blogPostsArray = new JArray(
        blogPosts.Select(p => new JObject
          {
            {"Title", p.Title},
            {
              "Author", new JObject
                {
                  {"Name", p.AuthorName},
                  {"Twitter", p.AuthorTwitter}
                }
            },
            {"Date", p.PostedDate},
            {"BodyHtml", HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(p.Body)},
          })
        );

      Console.WriteLine(blogPostsArray.ToString());
      // [
      //   {
      //     "Title": "Json.NET is awesome!",
      //     "Author": {
      //       "Name": "James Newton-King",
      //       "Twitter": "JamesNK"
      //     },
      //     "Date": "2013-01-23T19:30:00",
      //     "BodyHtml": "&lt;h3&gt;Title!&lt;/h3&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;Content!&lt;/p&gt;"
      //   }
      // ]
      #endregion
    }
  }
}