Don't want to JSON serialize the whole list of classes

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Published on 2010-03-09T11:40:32Z Indexed on 2010/03/09 11:51 UTC
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Hey,

I've got a IList of Sites in my application and Site has a large amount of properties.

I'm wanting to convert this list to JSON to be used in a dropdownlist similar to this

    var sites = SiteRepository.FindAllSites();
    return new JsonResult() { Data = sites, JsonRequestBehavior = JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet };

the problem I have is that I only want to use the id and name properties of the site class. I was thinking a way round this would be to use an 'adaptor' class that would then only expose these two properties and I would then serialize that.

The problem I have is I want to make the class generic so that it can handle any list of objects. Has anybody come across a similar situation and solved it?

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