SystemTextJsonPatch 4.0.0

dotnet add package SystemTextJsonPatch --version 4.0.0                
NuGet\Install-Package SystemTextJsonPatch -Version 4.0.0                
This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package.
<PackageReference Include="SystemTextJsonPatch" Version="4.0.0" />                
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package.
paket add SystemTextJsonPatch --version 4.0.0                
#r "nuget: SystemTextJsonPatch, 4.0.0"                
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package.
// Install SystemTextJsonPatch as a Cake Addin
#addin nuget:?package=SystemTextJsonPatch&version=4.0.0

// Install SystemTextJsonPatch as a Cake Tool
#tool nuget:?package=SystemTextJsonPatch&version=4.0.0                

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System Text Json Patch

SystemTextJsonPatch is a JSON Patch (JsonPatchDocument) RFC 6902 implementation for .NET using System.Text.Json

This library tries to ease the migration from Newtonsoft.Json to System.Text.Json by providing similar API for HttpPatch requests as in Microsoft.AspNetCore.JsonPatch and Marvin.JsonPatch

  • Designed as an easy replacement for Microsoft.AspNetCore.JsonPatch
  • Supports .NET 6+ & netstandard2.0

Getting started

Build a patch document on the client. You can use the operations as described in the IETF document: Add, Remove, Replace, Copy, Move and Test.

JsonPatchDocument<DTO.Expense> expensePatch = new JsonPatchDocument<DTO.Expense>();
expensePatch.Replace(e => e.Description, expense.Description);

// serialize it to JSON
var expensePatchJson = System.Text.Json.JsonSerializer.Serialize(expensePatch);

On your API, in the patch method (accept document as parameter & use ApplyTo method)

[Route("api/expenses/{id}")]
[HttpPatch]
public IHttpActionResult Patch(
    int id,
    [FromBody] JsonPatchDocument<DTO.Expense> expensePatchDocument
)
{
      // get the expense from the repository
      var expense = _repository.GetExpense(id);

      // apply the patch document 
      expensePatchDocument.ApplyTo(expense);

      // changes have been applied to expense object
}

Deny access to properties

If you need to stop JsonPatch from reading or writing to some properties, then you can decorate them with [DenyPatch], if a patch occurs that happens to access the property then a JsonPatchAccessDeniedException is thrown.

Migration from v1

JsonPatchDocumentConverterFactory no longer needs to be set to JsonSerializerOptions. Instead JsonPatchDocument types now use JsonConvertAttribute to use the correct converter.

Performance comparison

This test deserializes a JSON patch document of 8 operations and applies the changes to a new model.

See SystemTextJsonPatch.Benchmark for more details.

BenchmarkDotNet v0.14.0, Windows 11 (10.0.22631.4169/23H2/2023Update/SunValley3) AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, 1 CPU, 32 logical and 16 physical cores .NET SDK 9.0.100-rc.1.24452.12 [Host] : .NET 8.0.8 (8.0.824.36612), X64 RyuJIT AVX2 Job-MZQQSH : .NET 8.0.8 (8.0.824.36612), X64 RyuJIT AVX2

WarmupCount=2

Method Mean Error StdDev Gen0 Gen1 Allocated
SystemTextJsonPatch 4.297 us 0.0364 us 0.0340 us 0.2975 - 4.98 KB
MarvinJsonPatch 764.999 us 9.9837 us 8.3368 us 3.9063 1.9531 95.41 KB
AspNetCoreJsonPatch 16.692 us 0.0996 us 0.0932 us 2.6550 0.0610 43.55 KB
Product Compatible and additional computed target framework versions.
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.NET Standard netstandard2.0 is compatible.  netstandard2.1 was computed. 
.NET Framework net461 was computed.  net462 was computed.  net463 was computed.  net47 was computed.  net471 was computed.  net472 was computed.  net48 was computed.  net481 was computed. 
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Compatible target framework(s)
Included target framework(s) (in package)
Learn more about Target Frameworks and .NET Standard.
  • .NETStandard 2.0

  • net6.0

    • No dependencies.
  • net7.0

    • No dependencies.
  • net8.0

    • No dependencies.

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