DataTable to Json using jquery

Question

I\'m trying to execute a web service which returns a DataTable with the following piece of code:

$.ajax({  
    type: \"POST\",  
    url: url,  
    data: d         


        

Answer 1

Like Marc, I too am not surprised that the DataTable breaks your webservice/json exchange. I'd like to endorse Json.NET also.

But if you decide to not go with it, you still don't have to build the json manually. Just make your own lean custom class with all the properties you need and then return an array of that class. You will of course have to write code to "convert" your data table into your new class. I know, it could be a lot of code writing, but it's a lot less error prone then trying to manually make a json string.