skippyfire

Good point.  The client may not know how to reconstruct the graph.

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According to Wikipedia this isn't standard JSON behaviour: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#Object_references

Yea, that's my concern. If you start to get too clever, then you end up where we were back in 2000 with the SOAP v1 section 5 encoding rules. Basically, it's not just XML (or JSON) anymore and you then need the same specalized framework on both ends.

skippyfire

BTW, I attended your jQuery Mobile / MVC 4 talk at the NE Code Camp 2 weeks ago.  Well done!

Cool, thanks!