Web API hide field from consumer of service

Question

I have a class - Person. The consumer of the Web API service must set the ID. I don't want them to be able to set or even see the InternalID.

public class Person
{
    [Required(ErrorMessage = "ID is required.")]
    public string ID { get; set; }

    public string InternalID { get; set; }

 }

Other parts of my application will need to work with the InternalID, so setting it private/internal won't work.

See this post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11851207/prevent-property-from-being-serialized-in-web-api — Lars Anundskås, Sep 03 '13 at 20:35
That post suggests many approaches and has many links to external articles. Is there one in particular? — tom, Sep 03 '13 at 20:42

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 03 '13 at 20:49

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I just found this and it looks good to me.

    [JsonIgnore]
    [XmlIgnore]
    public string InternalID { get; set; }

answered Sep 03 '13 at 20:49

tom

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 03 '13 at 20:45

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Why don't you obfuscate your id? You could have a function crypting the ID to a value and then de-crypting it. So the encrypted ID would be public and the decrypted ID would be private.

answered Sep 03 '13 at 20:45

Lajos Arpad

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Seems a bit heavy when all I want to make sure I have a unique ID. – tom Sep 03 '13 at 20:50

Web API hide field from consumer of service

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