ASP.NET WebService is Wrapping my JSON response with XML tags

Question

I\'m not sure where I\'m going wrong of what I\'m missing.

I\'m building an ASP.NET 2.0 (on the .Net 3.5 framework) Web application and I am including a webservice.

Answer 1

Three things you may not be doing:

• Marking the method static
• Performing a POST
• Hand an empty "{ }" for the data in jQuery.

There may be a way to call the method with a GET, I've only ever used POST. I was able to get your example working with this:

The code behind (you don't need to create a webservice, you can put this in your default.aspx):

[WebMethod]
public static string Tester()
{
    JavaScriptSerializer ser = new JavaScriptSerializer();

    var jsonData = new
    {
        total = 1, // we'll implement later 
        page = 1,
        records = 3, // implement later 
        rows = new[]{
              new {id = 1, cell = new[] {"1", "-7", "Is this a good question?", "yay"}},
              new {id = 2, cell = new[] {"2", "15", "Is this a blatant ripoff?", "yay"}},
              new {id = 3, cell = new[] {"3", "23", "Why is the sky blue?", "yay"}}
            }
        };

    return ser.Serialize(jsonData); //products.ToString();
}

The result:

{"d":"{\"total\":1,\"page\":1,\"records\":3,\"rows\":[{\"id\":1,\"cell\":[\"1\",\"-7\",\"Is this a good question?\",\"yay\"]},{\"id\":2,\"cell\":[\"2\",\"15\",\"Is this a blatant ripoff?\",\"yay\"]},{\"id\":3,\"cell\":[\"3\",\"23\",\"Why is the sky blue?\",\"yay\"]}]}"}

A more detailed explanation is here