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Reputation: 2167

Return JSON from Web API that makes asynchronous call to Odata endpoint

I am building a Web API which makes a asynchronous call to the Odata endpoint. The odata endpoint returns JSON, and I am trying to return the same JSON from the Web API too. Since I am calling the Odata endpoint asynchronously I am using Task as return type my API method but I want to return them as JSON and I am not sure how I can do that.Below is my code

   public async Task<string> GetEmployee(string instance)
    {
       .....
        EmployeeDTO.RootObject returnObj = new EmployeeDTO.RootObject();
        var responsedata = "";
        try
        {
        using (var client_Core = new HttpClient())
            {
               ....
                string core_URL = BaseURL_Core+URL_instance;
                var response = client_Core.GetAsync(core_URL).Result;

                responsedata = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
              }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            throw ex;
        }
        return responsedata;

Currently it returns like 

<string xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/">
 {
       "@odata.context":"https://science.com/odata/$metadata#EMPLOYEE",
"value":[
       { 
        "Id":5000004, 
        "Name":"Account", 
        "Barcode":"EM1"
       }]
    }
 </string>

I am trying to avoid the string tag around the JSON response. How acn we do that

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 1291

Answers (1)

Crowcoder
Crowcoder

Reputation: 11514

I hope the API can return JSON and it is just a matter of changing the Content-Type as suggested by Chayim.

But if it will only return xml, you could do this:

...
string core_URL = BaseURL_Core+URL_instance;
var response = await client_Core.GetAsync(core_URL);
string xml = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
System.Xml.Linq.XDocument doc = System.Xml.Linq.XDocument.Parse(xml);
responsedata = doc.Root.Value;
...

Upvotes: 1

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