Unexpected behavior when using a converter with a nested serializer

[codemonkey493]

Source/destination types

I'm serializing an array of MyInfo objects using the following converter, with JSON serializer formatting set to indented:

class TestConverter : JsonConverter<MyInfo>
{
	public override void WriteJson(JsonWriter writer, MyInfo value, JsonSerializer serializer)
	{
		var subSerializer = new JsonSerializer
		{
			Formatting = Formatting.None,
		};
		subSerializer.Serialize(writer, new Dictionary<string, string> { { "Name", value.Name } });
	}

	public override MyInfo ReadJson(JsonReader reader, Type objectType, MyInfo existingValue, bool hasExistingValue, JsonSerializer serializer)
	{
		throw new NotSupportedException();
	}
}

class MyInfo
{
	public string Name;
}

Expected behavior

I expected that it would use the nested serializer to serialize the values of the objects only, so the result would look like this:

[
    {"Name":"SomeName1"},
    {"Name":"SomeName2"}
]

Actual behavior

However, it looks like this:

[{"Name":"SomeName1"},{"Name":"SomeName2"}]

What am I missing?

[codemonkey493]

PS when I do conversion like this, it works as expected:

var text = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new Dictionary<string, string> { { "Name", value.Name } });
writer.WriteRawValue(text);

I wonder why the code with the nested serializer doesn't?

[ddev10d]

Hi @codemonkey493 , You can use Formatting = Formatting.Indented to indent the formatting of the serialized objects.