Question

I have a response object which I want to convert to Json, but somehow I can’t, propably beacuse of I cannot the framework too well.

I’m trying to convert a anonymous object to json but somehow it doesn’t go so well. I would preferably do it in JSON than just make a text/plain result.

In my controller:

ViewData["json"] = new { Ok = false }; 

In my view:

  <%: ViewData["json"] %>

In my js-code (ajax-callback) I get back the following:

{ Ok = False } 

Which ain’t what I am excepting. I want the

{ ok : false } 

or else js doesn’t recognize the property in the object as a boolean.

Or are there some better way to push out json-data?

EDIT

I did a method in my controller with a JsonResult instead of Actionresult.

var obj = new
{
Ok = false,
Message = “”
};

    return Json(obj); 

And that’s the object I’m pushing out. And like this in js:

{"Ok":true,"Message":""}

C# 4.0 and Javascript goes along so well – it is beautiful!!!

Answer 1

You’ll need to use some library to format the data to json. I would recommend newtonsoft.json

http://james.newtonking.com/pages/json-net.aspx

You can also return a JsonResult in ASP.net mvc which will serialize your object for you.

    public virtual JsonResult Save(MyModel model)
    {

        return Json(new { Success = true, Fail = false });
    }

But this ActionMethod will need to be called via AJAX to get the data.