I've spent some time rebuilding the JOS.ContentJson library from scratch and when doing that I realised that it was kind of dumb to limit the library to only JSON. So I've added the possibility to replace the default serializer with a custom one, so you can return the data in any format you like(you have to build the serializer yourself though, I only provide a JSON serializer out of the box). By doing that, the name ContentJson looks kind of lame, so I've released a new package named JOS.ContentSerializer instead.

You can install it by doing Install-Package JOS.ContentSerializer
If you are using the JOS.ContentJson package, you will see that I've released a new major version, 3.0. I've marked many of the methods obsolete and I've also added a readme.txt that tells you to uninstall the package and install the new one instead.

One thing that's great(and bad) with this rewrite is that I could remove/refactor whatever I wanted so it's possible that I've removed something that you guys where using. I can't be sure since everything was based on extension methods in the old library which kind of makes it impossible for me to know which breaking changes I might have introduced, hence the new major version.

Another great thing is that the library now uses dependency injection everywhere, so it's extremely easy to customize the behavior. You can find the code and a more detailed README here.

If I've removed anything you were using, please create a new issue on GitHub and I will fix it asap.

Quick example

Consider the following pagetype:

public class DemoPage : PageData
{
    [CultureSpecific]
    [Display(
        Name = "String",
        GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content,
        Order = 100)]
    public virtual string String { get; set; }

    [CultureSpecific]
    [Display(
        Name = "ContentArea",
        GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content,
        Order = 200)]
    public virtual ContentArea MainContentArea { get; set; }

    [CultureSpecific]
    [Display(
        Name = "Degrees",
        GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content,
        Order = 300)]
    public virtual double Degrees { get; set; }

    [CultureSpecific]
    [Display(
        Name = "Int",
        GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content,
        Order = 400)]
    public virtual int Int { get; set; }

    [CultureSpecific]
    [Display(
        Name = "Date",
        GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content,
        Order = 500)]
    public virtual DateTime DateTime { get; set; }

    [CultureSpecific]
    [Display(
        Name = "Bool",
        GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content,
        Order = 600)]
    public virtual bool Bool { get; set; }

    [CultureSpecific]
    [Display(
        Name = "PageType",
        GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content,
        Order = 700)]
    public virtual PageType PageType { get; set; }

    [CultureSpecific]
    [Display(
        Name = "ContentReference",
        GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content,
        Order = 800)]
    public virtual ContentReference ContentReference { get; set; }

    [CultureSpecific]
    [Display(
        Name = "PageReference",
        GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content,
        Order = 900)]
    public virtual PageReference PageReference { get; set; }

    [CultureSpecific]
    [Display(
        Name = "Url",
        GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content,
        Order = 1000)]
    public virtual Url Url { get; set; }

    [Display(
        Name = "InternalBlock",
        GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content,
        Order = 1100)]
    public virtual VimeoVideoBlock InternalBlock { get; set; }

    [Display(
        Name = "ContentReferenceList",
        GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content,
        Order = 1200)]
    public virtual IList<ContentReference> ContentReferenceList { get; set; }

    [Display(
        Name = "XhtmlString",
        GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content,
        Order = 1300)]
    public virtual XhtmlString XhtmlString { get; set; }

    [Display(
        Name = "LinkItemCollection",
        GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content,
        Order = 1400)]
    public virtual LinkItemCollection LinkItemCollection { get; set; }

    [Display(
        Name = "SelectOne",
        GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content,
        Order = 1500)]
    [SelectOne(SelectionFactoryType = typeof(ContactPageSelectionFactory))]
    public virtual string SelectOne { get; set; }

    [Display(
        Name = "SelectMany",
        GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content,
        Order = 1600)]
    [SelectMany(SelectionFactoryType = typeof(ContactPageSelectionFactory))]
    public virtual string SelectMany { get; set; }
}


By calling .ToJson on it like this

public class DemoPageController : PageController<DemoPage>
{
    public string Index(DemoPage currentPage)
    {
        return currentPage.ToJson();
    }
}

You would get the following result

{
    "string": "This is a string",
    "mainContentArea": {
        "vimeoVideoBlock": [{
            "name": "My Vimeo Block"
        }]
    },
    "degrees": 133.7,
    "int": 1337,
    "dateTime": "2017-05-18T00:00:00+02:00",
    "bool": true,
    "pageType": "DemoPage",
    "contentReference": "http://localhost:52467/about-us/management/",
    "pageReference": "http://localhost:52467/alloy-plan/download-alloy-plan/",
    "url": "http://localhost:52467/globalassets/alloy-meet/alloymeet.png",
    "internalBlock": {
        "name": "Im a Vimeo block",
        "mainContentArea": {
            "youtubeVideoBlock": [{
                "name": "I am a youtube block in a contentarea on a Vimeoblock"
            }]
        }
    },
    "contentReferenceList": ["http://localhost:52467/search/", "http://localhost:52467/alloy-meet/"],
    "xhtmlString": "<p>I am a xhtmlstring, do you like it?</p>\n<p>Im <strong>bold not <em>bald</em></strong></p>",
    "linkItemCollection": [{
        "href": "http://localhost:52467/alloy-plan/?query=any",
        "title": "Any title",
        "target": "_blank",
        "text": "Any text"
    }, {
        "href": "https://josef.guru",
        "title": "External link",
        "target": "_blank",
        "text": "External"
    }, {
        "href": "mailto:example@example.org",
        "title": "Email link",
        "target": null,
        "text": "Email"
    }],
    "selectOne": [{
        "selected": false,
        "text": "Amar Gupta",
        "value": "34"
    }, {
        "selected": false,
        "text": "Fiona Miller",
        "value": "33"
    }, {
        "selected": true,
        "text": "Michelle Hernandez",
        "value": "30"
    }, {
        "selected": false,
        "text": "Robert Carlsson",
        "value": "32"
    }, {
        "selected": false,
        "text": "Todd Slayton",
        "value": "31"
    }],
    "selectMany": [{
        "selected": false,
        "text": "Amar Gupta",
        "value": "34"
    }, {
        "selected": true,
        "text": "Fiona Miller",
        "value": "33"
    }, {
        "selected": false,
        "text": "Michelle Hernandez",
        "value": "30"
    }, {
        "selected": false,
        "text": "Robert Carlsson",
        "value": "32"
    }, {
        "selected": false,
        "text": "Todd Slayton",
        "value": "31"
    }]
}