Table of Contents

Popcorn

• Quick Start

• Protocol / General Usage

  • Declaring Included Fields

  • Including Fields

  • Including Sub-Entities

  • Including Collections

  • Default Fields

  • Methods

  • Moving Forward

• .NET implementation

  • Quick Start

  • Getting Started

  • Include Parameter Syntax

  • Wildcard Includes

  • Default Includes

  • Internal-Only Fields ([Never])

  • Computed Fields & Factories

  • Lazy Loading

• Performance

• Migrating from v7 to v8

• Roadmap

• Releases and Release Notes

• Contributing

• License

• Meet the Maintainers

v7-only tutorials (legacy reflection engine)

These describe features that exist only in the v7 runtime-reflection line (Skyward.Api.Popcorn). They have been replaced in v8 by patterns native to ASP.NET Core + System.Text.Json. The migration guide documents the v8 equivalent for each.

• Authorizers — v8: ASP.NET Core authorization middleware.
• Sorting — v8: endpoint-layer sort, not a framework feature.
• Inspectors — v8: [PopcornEnvelope] type + UsePopcornExceptionHandler.
• Contexts — v8: ASP.NET Core DI.
• Expand From — v8: [Never] on source + hand factory, or Mapster.
• Blind Expansion — v8: standard JsonConverter<T>.