ASP.NET Core 1.0 Web API doesn't return XML

Question

How can I have my vnext API to return XML and JSON ?

I thought that using content-type with application/xml would work as it was before. Note that I tryed with Accep

Answer 1

Here is the updated answer for MVC6 rc1

Startup.cs (using MvcXmlMvcBuilderExtensions)

    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
    {
        var mvcBuilder = services.AddMvc();
        mvcBuilder.AddXmlSerializerFormatters();
        // or mvcBuilder.AddXmlDataContractSerializerFormatters()

project.json

"dependencies": {
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc": "6.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Formatters.Xml": "6.0.0-rc1-final",

Don't forget as ASP.NET 5 was renamed to ASP.NET Core 1.0 and so Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc became Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc i.e.

"dependencies": {
   "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc" : "1.0.2",
   "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Formatters.Xml" : "1.0.2",