When designing objects in C# you use pascal casing for your properties, but in other languages you don’t, and example (other than java) is TypeScript here’s an article from Microsoft about it.

And that’s cool, a lot of the languages have different standards and depending on which one you are in, you write a little different.

The problem is when you try to work on a standard that defines cross platform communication that is case sensitive, an example being Swagger using REST and JSON.

So the issue we had today was a WebAPI project was generating objects like this:

{
"ObjectId": 203
"ObjectName" : "My Object Name"
}

When swaggerated the object comes out correctly with the correct pascal casing, however when using swagger codegen the object is converted to camel case (TypeScript Below)

export interface MyObject {
 objectId: number;
 objectName: string;
}

The final output is a generated client library that can’t read any objects from the API because JavaScript is case sensitive.

After some investigation we found that when the swagger outputs camel casing the C# client generators (Autorest and Swagger codegen) will output C# code that is in camel casing but with properties to do the translating from camel to pascal, like the below example

/// <summary>
/// Gets or Sets TimeZoneName
/// </summary>
[JsonProperty(PropertyName = "timeZoneName")]
public string TimeZoneName { get; set; }

So to avoid pushing shit up hill we decided to roll down it. I found this excellent article on creating a filter for WebAPI to convert all your pascal cased objects to camel case on the fly

So we found that the best practice is:

• Write Web API C# in Pascal casing
• Covert using an action filter from pascal to camel case Json objects
• Creating the client with TyepScript (or other camel language) default option will then work
• Creating the C# client will add the JsonProperty to translate from camel to pascal and resulting C# client will be pascal cased

I raised a GitHub Issue here with a link into the source code that I found in swagger codegen, however later realized that changing the way we do things will mitigate long term pain.