Question

Here is the method I’m calling:

public Bear GetBear(int bearId)
    {
        MyEntities be = new MyEntities ();
        Location bear = (from b in be.Bears
                        where b.id == bearId
                        select b).First();
        return bear;
    }

Here is how I call it:

$.ajax({ url: "Bear/GetBear", data: { bearId: 2}, success: function (bear) { alert(bear.id) } })

But, the text in the alerted dialog box is undefined. And when I’m moving through GetBear with breakpoint, the returned bear HAS id. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Shouldn’t you convert the data into json/xml/text/dataType (http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax) before sending it back?