In the previous post, we discussed the foundations for automatic data encryption of properties during serialisation using System.Text.Json. In this post, we’ll continue our journey, moving toward removing our fake “encryption” and replacing it with actual encryption. Along the way we’ll establish some abstractions and a design that allows us to develop flexible encryption and […]
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Encrypting Properties with System.Text.Json and a TypeInfoResolver Modifier (Part 1)
In this multi-part blog series, we’ll build a reasonably full-featured code base for automatically encrypting/decrypting specific properties on types that are being serialised and deserialised using System.Text.Json. In future posts, we’ll eventually build up to a solution that utilises Azure Key Vault to secure the encryption key protecting the data. Today, we’ll begin with some […]
Accessing State in System.Text.Json Custom Converters
In this post, I describe several techniques that can provide additional state to custom JsonConverters when using System.Text.Json. While building the new .NET client for Elasticsearch, one of the key objectives I gave myself was to move away from the internal Utf8Json-based serializer used in v7. The obvious choice was to look at redesigning the […]
Custom JSON Serialisation with System.Text.Json Converters
This post is my contribution to the .NET Advent calendar. Make sure you check out the other amazing posts on the lead up to Christmas! At the time of writing, I am deep into work on some significant changes in the Elasticsearch .NET client. One of the changes is moving to System.Text.Json as the default […]
Playing with System.Text.Json Source Generators
In my daily work, I’m becoming quite familiar with the ins and outs of using System.Text.Json. For those unfamiliar with this library, it was released along with .NET Core 3.0 as an in-the-box JSON serialisation library. At its release, System.Text.Json was pretty basic in its feature set, designed primarily for ASP.NET Core scenarios to handle […]