JSON response formatting is different from ASP.NET Core

[MartinZikmund]

Issue / Steps to reproduce the problem

The HttpResponseExtensions class writes JSON responses in PascalCase format instead of camelCase which is the ASP.NET Core default. It would be great if it was possible to at least configure this, or set the default to match ASP.NET Core.

[leastprivilege]

Why? What's the scenario?

[MartinZikmund]

Many of the Identity server responses are using WriteJsonAsync to write the JSON response. Unfortunately this is currently using the default JSON.NET PascalCase formatting and is not easily configurable.

In version 1.0 ASP.NET Core has started using camelCase formatting, as it is more in line with the rest of the world see announement here and discussion here.

This means now that if we are following the default ASP.NET Core convention, all Web API responses are now coming as camelCase, while responses from IdentityServer4 are coming as PascalCase. It is not a problem just an inconsistency and in result the API does not look as a single unit. It would be great if
JsonSerializerSettings were exposed so that they were configurable.

[leastprivilege]

Can you give me an example?

I would say most things we write to the response have the exact casing per specification.

[brockallen]

Anything else to add to this?

[MartinZikmund]

Sorry, it was on our side :-) . We were using the HttpResponseExtensions class to output JSON to the response. However, it is surprising this class is marked as public as it seems as an internal utility class.

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