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fix(csharp): omit superfluous usings when no converter class is emitted#3045

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Bug

In --lang cs, the NewtonSoft and System.Text.Json renderers unconditionally
emitted the usings needed for the date-time converter class whenever
attributes (--features attributes-only, or the default full mode) were
requested — even for models with no date/date-time fields, named unions, or
enums, i.e. cases where no converter class is generated at all.

Repro (--lang cs --features attributes-only --framework NewtonSoft on a
model with only string/number/bool fields):

using System.Globalization;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Converters;

System.Globalization and Newtonsoft.Json.Converters are only used inside
the generated Converter/date-converter class, which wasn't being emitted
here — so both usings were dead code.

Root cause

NewtonsoftCSharpRenderer.emitUsings() and
SystemTextJsonCSharpRenderer.emitUsings() emitted System.Globalization
(and, for NewtonSoft, Newtonsoft.Json.Converters) unconditionally whenever
attributes or helpers were needed, instead of checking whether the converter
class itself (emitConverterClass()) was actually going to be emitted.

Fix

Added a shared needConverterClass getter in each renderer (the same
condition already used to decide whether to call emitConverterClass()) and
gated the System.Globalization / Newtonsoft.Json.Converters usings on it.
Newtonsoft.Json (needed for JsonProperty attributes) and the
System.Text.Json/System.Text.Json.Serialization usings are unaffected and
still always emitted when needed.

Test coverage

  • test/unit/csharp-superfluous-usings.test.ts (new): asserts that
    attributes-only output for a model with no dates/unions/enums omits
    System.Globalization and Newtonsoft.Json.Converters for both the
    NewtonSoft and System.Text.Json frameworks, while still keeping the
    required namespace usings; also asserts the usings are still present when a
    converter class is actually generated (full/helpers mode).
  • test/languages.ts: enabled attributes-only fixture coverage for
    simple-object.json under both CSharpLanguage (NewtonSoft) and
    CSharpLanguageSystemTextJson, so the end-to-end fixture pipeline also
    exercises this code path.

Verification

  • npm run build passes.
  • npx vitest run test/unit — 174/174 tests pass, including the 4 new ones.
  • Manually re-ran the original repro (node dist/index.js --lang cs --features attributes-only --framework NewtonSoft sample.json) and
    confirmed the superfluous usings are gone, while a model with a date field
    or the full (non-attributes-only) mode still emits the converter usings
    correctly.
  • The C# fixture tests (FIXTURE=csharp / FIXTURE=csharp-systemtextjson)
    could not be run locally because dotnet is not installed in this
    environment; the new simple-object.json / attributes-only fixture
    combination added in test/languages.ts will be exercised by CI.

Fixes #800.

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schani and others added 2 commits July 20, 2026 18:35
…ed (#800)

Co-Authored-By: gpt-5.6-sol via pi <noreply@openai.com>
The attributes-only C# mode emits only the annotated model classes and no
FromJson/ToJson serialization helpers, so the round-trip fixture driver
(TopLevel.FromJson(json).ToJson()) cannot compile against it — CI failed
with CS0117 'TopLevel' does not contain a definition for 'FromJson'.

Remove the two `["simple-object.json", { features: "attributes-only" }]`
quickTestRendererOptions entries added for NewtonSoft and SystemTextJson.
The using-omission behavior is fully covered by the unit tests in
test/unit/csharp-superfluous-usings.test.ts, which is the appropriate
mechanism for asserting that code is *not* generated (a round-trip fixture
cannot exercise attributes-only mode by design).

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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