Question

I am able to return an JSON arrray from a WCF rest service.

[ {"Name" : "john", "age" : 23 }, {"Name" : "Petter",  "age" : 21 } ]

but how can I add a name to the array. In this case, I want to add the “People” to the beginning of the array

{"People" : [ {"Name" : "john", "age" : 23 }, {"Name" : "Petter",  "age" : 21 } ]}

Answer 1

return an object that has a people field whose value is an array of your name/age objects.

For example

[DataContract]
public class People
{
    [DataMember]
    public Person[] People { get; set; }
}

This assumes Person is the class you’re returning in your array, for example:

[DataContract]
public class Person
{
    [DataMember]
    public string Name { get; set; }

    [DataMember]
    public int age { get; set; }
}