Question

I want to use jquery.ajax to retrieve some data from the server in a asp.net mvc application.

I am looking for a way to send back (server to client) more than one item

what can i do on the asp.net mvc side to include more items in the result

function AjaxSucceeded(result) {

in suach a way that they can be used easily in javascript code?

Answer 1

When you are serializing a list, it’s JSON-representation is also a list. Consider this example:

public JsonResult Fetch() {
    return Json(new[] { 1, 2, 3 });
}

This method will return the following JSON:

[1, 2, 3]

Which is easily enumerable in JavaScript:

$.get("/fetch/", function(response) {
    for(var i = 0; i < response.length; i++) {
         alert("Item " + response[i]);
    }
});

The JSON serializer can of course handle complex objects.