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

the controllers actions themselves should not be concerned with how the data is serialized. yo should be able to request the data and any format necessary the operation to retrieve the data would be the same.

by default web api serialized to json objects. however if you set the content type of the request to xml is should return the same result, but formatted as xml instead of json.