JSON Deserialization behaviour regarding missing properties

Question

Hi,

I'm using System.Text.Json.JsonSerializer.Serialize in a .NET 5 C# application to save the application state to a json file.
The application uses JsonSerializer.Deserialize<MyClass>(jsonString) to read the state back, which works fine. I'm however looking for the default behaviour of the deserialize method after adjusting MyClass by adding or removing properties. I looked in the documentation for the default deserialization behaviour but it doesn't mention what happens to missing properties or properties which are deprecated. I also found this information about Version tolerant serialization in binary serialization.

Answer 1

It seems that there is no need to do additional things.

If there is a property in the class that is not in json, then it will be the default value of that data type. If there is a property in json that is not in the class, then this property will be ignored.

Have you encountered any errors? Or am I misunderstanding what you mean?

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