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Brett
Brett

Reputation: 12007

ASP.NET MVC - JSON.NET adds escaped quotes around my keys and values

I have an MVC ApiController class in which I am trying to return JSON.

I am using Newtonsoft's JSON.NET serializer in the method:

// GET api/packages/5
public string Get(int id)
{
    var Packages = new Dictionary<string, string>();
    Packages.Add("Package 1", "One");
    Packages.Add("Package 2", "Two");
    Packages.Add("Package 3", "Three");
    Packages.Add("Package 4", "Four");

    return JsonConvert.SerializeObject(Packages);
}

But when viewed in my browser, I see the response:

"{\"Package 1\":\"One\",\"Package 2\":\"Two\",\"Package 3\":\"Three\",\"Package 4\":\"Four\"}"

with all the quotes escaped. This is obviously not readable by my client. Can anyone see where I am going wrong here? The content-type is returned as application/json (which is shown in Chrome developer tools also).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 494

Answers (1)

Abbas Amiri
Abbas Amiri

Reputation: 3204

There is a simple method without using JSON.NET.

 public Dictionary<string, string> Get()
 {
        var packages = new Dictionary<string, string>
                           {
                               {"Package 1", "One"},
                               {"Package 2", "Two"},
                               {"Package 3", "Three"},
                               {"Package 4", "Four"}
                           };

        return packages;
 }

The result in IE is 

{"Package 1":"One","Package 2":"Two","Package 3":"Three","Package 4":"Four"}

Upvotes: 1

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