Reputation: 1738
I need to build an API using C# webservice, which needs to return values in json format.
Currently I have the following lines of code
namespace WebService1
{
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for Service1
/// </summary>
[WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/")]
[WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]
[System.ComponentModel.ToolboxItem(false)]
// To allow this Web Service to be called from script, using ASP.NET AJAX, uncomment the following line.
// [System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService]
public class Service1 : System.Web.Services.WebService
{
[WebMethod]
public string HelloWorld()
{
return new JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize(new { errMsg = "test" });
}
}
}
The output of this when the post method is invoked is
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<string xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">{"errMsg":"test"}</string>
But this isn't a valid json how do I make the webservice return the json object only and not the xml headers?
Upvotes: 1
Views: 1315
Reputation: 203
Calling this webservice with header Content-Type: application/json will automatically transform the response to json and your xml will be gone.
Upvotes: 2