Question

I’m using WCF to create a Rest-JSON API.

The problem is that my results always starts with {"GetResult": HERE_MY_RESULT } (notice the “GetResult”)

For example:

public string GetString()
{
    return "Hello World!";
}

returns {"GetResult": "Hello World!"}

Here is the relevant code that I’m using for my service:
Service:

[ServiceContract]
public interface IPlaceService
{
    [OperationContract]
    [WebInvoke(Method = "GET",
                ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json,
                BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Wrapped,
                UriTemplate = "places")]
    PlaceModel Get();
}

public class PlaceService : IPlaceService
{
    public PlaceModel Get()
    {
        return new PlaceModel
        {
            Count = 123,
            Title = "Title",
            Description = "Desc",
        };
    }
}

Contract:

[DataContract]
public class PlaceModel
{
    [DataMember(Name="count")]
    public int Count { get; set; }

    [DataMember(Name = "title")]
    public string Title { get; set; }

    [DataMember(Name = "description")]
    public string Description { get; set; }
}

And the result:

{"GetResult":{"count":123,"description":"Desc","title":"Title"}}

Does anybody know how to remove that "GetResult" from my JSON result?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Well I found the solution inspired on this post.

Just changing the BodyStyle of the [OperationContract] to

BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Bare,

fixes it, and now Im recieving:

{"count":123,"data":[],"description":"Desc","title":"Title"}