ASP.NET Web API Controller Specific Serializer

Question

I\'ve a self host Web API with 2 controllers:

• For controller 1, I need default DataContractSerializer (I\'m exposing EF 5 POCO)
• For controller 2, I ne

Answer 1

Configuration:

config.Formatters.Remove(config.Formatters.JsonFormatter);
config.Formatters.Insert(0, new CustomXmlMediaTypeFormatter());

The Custom formatter:

public class CustomXmlMediaTypeFormatter : XmlMediaTypeFormatter
{
    public CustomXmlMediaTypeFormatter()
    {
        UseXmlSerializer = true;
    }
}

This seems to work, ok not so elegant. Removing default Xml Formatter does not work, so I concluded that the framework is somehow still using it.