How to send down a List<T> with ServiceStack?

Question

So here's my DTO, when I debug I CLEARLY see the Roles list populated... but in the endpoint /RestApi/myroute?format=json (or any format) there's nothing there. Tried changing List to a dto object, same deal.

    public class PageItemDto {

    public Guid Id { get; set; }
    public Guid PageId { get; set; }
    public Guid ParentId { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public float Ordinal { get; set; } = 0.0f;
    public string RolesJson { get; set; }

    public List<string> Roles = new List<string>();
}

If I then do

pageItem.RolesJson = ServiceStack.Text.JsonSerializer.SerializeToString(pageItem.Roles);

The RolesJson property shows what should be in the list...

What am I missing here, I SWEAR I've sent nested objects a billion times.

Answer 1

Only public properties are serialized by default, so your DTO should be changed to:

public class PageItem
{
    public Guid Id { get; set; }
    public Guid PageId { get; set; }
    public Guid ParentId { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public float Ordinal { get; set; } = 0.0f;
    public string RolesJson { get; set; }

    public List<string> Roles { get; set; } = new List<string>();
}