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David
David

Reputation: 2569

Returning a bare JSON-string

I got a web-service and want to return this "string" as a bare string, without the extra serialization by WCF, because it's already serialized.How do I do it?

    [OperationContract]
    [FaultContract(typeof(Exception))]
    [WebGet(ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json,
            BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Bare,
            RequestFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json)]
    string Get_Json();

Upvotes: 2

Views: 812

Answers (3)

Norman H
Norman H

Reputation: 2262

A much better and cleaner solution seems to be this well documented and cleanly designed project https://github.com/mikeobrien/WcfRestContrib which aims to plug some of the existing holes in the WCF REST solution space. This package is available also through NuGet with:

PM> Install-Package wcfrestcontrib

Upvotes: 0

Chen Kinnrot
Chen Kinnrot

Reputation: 21015

add a servic/operation behavior that overrides the serializer.. and do nothing in it... just return the result as is

Upvotes: 0

Lukas Cenovsky
Lukas Cenovsky

Reputation: 5670

I have found the solution for this on this page. The following should work:

[OperationContract]
public Stream Get_Json() {
    return new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("This is a string"));
}

Upvotes: 1

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