Question

I have an iPhone application through which I call asp.net webservice with json. It works fine with all data. But when I try to & in any data it throws server error as below

 System.ArgumentException: Unterminated string passed in. (55): {"UserId":"[e-mail]","FirstName":"somebody
   at ProjectName.ProjectWebService.AuthenticationService.UserRegistration(String jsonText) in C:\Users\mkariya\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\ProjectName\ProjectNames\MeaNexusWebService\AuthenticationService.asmx.cs:line 555

Data which I passed to this web service is as below

“UserId”:”[e-mail]”,”FirstName”:”somebody&fname”,”City”:”Ahmedabad”,”LastName”:”somebodylname”,”State”:”Gujarat”,”Country”:”India”,”Password”:”admin1!”}

in which FirstName has value somebody&fname, so issue occurs at that place.

Answer 1

You need to escape the ampersand. Use the following instead of the “&” character:

\u0026