JSON.NET serialize JObject while ignoring null properties

You can use a recursive helper method like the one below to remove the null values from your JToken hierarchy prior to serializing it.

using System;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;

public static class JsonHelper
{
    public static JToken RemoveEmptyChildren(JToken token)
    {
        if (token.Type == JTokenType.Object)
        {
            JObject copy = new JObject();
            foreach (JProperty prop in token.Children<JProperty>())
            {
                JToken child = prop.Value;
                if (child.HasValues)
                {
                    child = RemoveEmptyChildren(child);
                }
                if (!IsEmpty(child))
                {
                    copy.Add(prop.Name, child);
                }
            }
            return copy;
        }
        else if (token.Type == JTokenType.Array)
        {
            JArray copy = new JArray();
            foreach (JToken item in token.Children())
            {
                JToken child = item;
                if (child.HasValues)
                {
                    child = RemoveEmptyChildren(child);
                }
                if (!IsEmpty(child))
                {
                    copy.Add(child);
                }
            }
            return copy;
        }
        return token;
    }

    public static bool IsEmpty(JToken token)
    {
        return (token.Type == JTokenType.Null);
    }
}

Demo:

string json = @"
{
    ""Foo"": {
        ""P1"": null,
        ""P2"": ""hello world"",
        ""P3"": null,
        ""P4"": {
            ""P1"": 1,
            ""P2"": null,
            ""P3"": null
        },
        ""FooArray"": [
            {
                ""F1"": null,
                ""F2"": null,
                ""F3"": null
            }
        ]
    },
    ""Bar"": null
}";

JToken token = JsonHelper.RemoveEmptyChildren(JToken.Parse(json));
Console.WriteLine(token.ToString(Formatting.Indented));

Output:

{
  "Foo": {
    "P2": "hello world",
    "P4": {
      "P1": 1
    },
    "FooArray": [
      {}
    ]
  }
}

Fiddle: https://dotnetfiddle.net/wzEOie

Notice that, after removing all null values, you will have an empty object in the FooArray, which you may not want. (And if that object were removed, then you'd have an empty FooArray, which you also may not want.) If you want to make the helper method more aggressive in its removal, you can change the IsEmpty function to this:

    public static bool IsEmpty(JToken token)
    {
        return (token.Type == JTokenType.Null) ||
               (token.Type == JTokenType.Array && !token.HasValues) ||
               (token.Type == JTokenType.Object && !token.HasValues);
    }

With that change in place, your output would look like this instead:

{
  "Foo": {
    "P2": "hello world",
    "P4": {
      "P1": 1
    }
  }
}

Fiddle: https://dotnetfiddle.net/ZdYogJ

Brian's answer works. I also came up with another (yet still recursive) way of doing it shortly after posting the question, in case anyone else is interested.

private void RemoveNullNodes(JToken root)
{
    if (root is JValue)
    {
        if (((JValue)root).Value == null)
        {
            ((JValue)root).Parent.Remove();
        }
    }
    else if (root is JArray)
    {
        ((JArray)root).ToList().ForEach(n => RemoveNullNodes(n));
        if (!(((JArray)root)).HasValues)
        {
            root.Parent.Remove();
        }
    }
    else if (root is JProperty)
    {
        RemoveNullNodes(((JProperty)root).Value);
    }
    else
    {
        var children = ((JObject)root).Properties().ToList();
        children.ForEach(n => RemoveNullNodes(n));

        if (!((JObject)root).HasValues)
        {
            if (((JObject)root).Parent is JArray)
            {
                ((JArray)root.Parent).Where(x => !x.HasValues).ToList().ForEach(n => n.Remove());
            }
            else
            {
                var propertyParent = ((JObject)root).Parent;
                while (!(propertyParent is JProperty))
                {
                    propertyParent = propertyParent.Parent;
                }
                propertyParent.Remove();
            }
        }
    }
}

You can prevent the null tokens from being created to begin with by specifying the JsonSerializer with its NullValueHandler set to NullValueHandler.Ignore. This is passed in as a parameter to JObject.FromObject as seen in an answer to the same question you linked to: https://stackoverflow.com/a/29259032/263139.