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Athanasios Emmanouilidis
Athanasios Emmanouilidis

Reputation: 2144

Unwanted double quotes in json

I have the following code in .NET

public JsonResult<string> Get()
    {
        Message message1 = new Message("lala1");
        Message message2 = new Message("lala2");

        List<Message> listOfMessages = new List<Message>();

        listOfMessages.Add(message1);
        listOfMessages.Add(message2);

        var json = new JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize(listOfMessages);
        return Json(json);
    }

What I get as a result is:

"[{\"message\":\"lala1\"},{\"message\":\"lala2\"}]"

I do not want the double quotes ("") in the start and in the end. Why does it add them ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 717

Answers (3)

Athanasios Emmanouilidis
Athanasios Emmanouilidis

Reputation: 2144

Solved it by using and returning a List Of JObjects.

Upvotes: 0

oldbam
oldbam

Reputation: 2487

MSDN documentation for JavaScriptSerializer class actually recommends the following:

Json.NET should be used [for] serialization and deserialization.

JSON.NET library became de-facto standard for working with JSON in .NET, for example, it is a default serializer that is used with ASP.NET Web API (link).

Here is how you can re-write your code to use JSON.NET (be sure to add Newtonsoft.Json nuget package to your solution):

public static void Main()
{
    var result = SerializeMessages();
    Console.WriteLine(result);
}

public static string SerializeMessages()
{
    var listOfMessages = new List<Message>
    {
        new Message("lala1"),
        new Message("lala2")
    };

    return JsonConvert.SerializeObject(listOfMessages);
}

Upvotes: 1

kall2sollies
kall2sollies

Reputation: 1549

You are trying to serialize JSON in JSON. Change :

var json = new JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize(listOfMessages);
return Json(json);

to :

return Json(listOfMessages);

Upvotes: 2

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