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UpTheCreek
UpTheCreek

Reputation: 32391

Performance of asp.net WebAPI vs. asp.net MVC controller emmiting JSON?

Does anyone know if there are performance benefits from using the WebAPI rather than just using an MVC controller which returns JSON?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1735

Answers (1)

Henrique Baggio
Henrique Baggio

Reputation: 346

I think the benefits are more related to flexibility than performance. You can implement a rest service using the MVC way, but the Web API provides a cleaner model: the actions are implicit in the HTTP verbs, the content can be delivered both in JSON and XML, there is native support to return an IQueryable< T > (this can be seen as a small performance improvement), and it can be integrated with an ASP.NET Web Forms application (or even a console app, with no ASP.NET at all).

Upvotes: 3

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