The Json Nightmare

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There is a common saying:

What magically works, magically fails.

It is true but the problem is even worse: nobody knows how it works

Wasabi uses magic to serialize/deserialize json content, that means that it uses the server and client culture, it acts depending the media-type and who knows what else. Also, Wasabi uses different serialization libraries for different parts of the system, most use ǸewtonSoft.Jsonwhile some parts useSystem.Text.Json`. That means that there are JsonConverters based on NewtonSoft while others are based on System.Text and there are even a few duplicated JsonConverters. Finally, some json converters do magic things.

Additionally Wasabi has different way to specify how to serialize objects: newer code uses well-configured serializers while older parts use decorations.

Finally, in most cases serializers use reflection to create instances and assign values to properties, something that is undesirable.

We should go for a explicit code for serialization instead of relaying on black magic.