How to return Json object on Web API Controller

Question

I used this below code on my asp.net controller to return Json object on my Ajax on javascript

public JsonResult myMethod()
{
    // return a Json Object, yo         


        

Answer 1

If you create yourself a new HttpContent class for delivering JSON, like...

 public class JsonContent : HttpContent {

    private readonly MemoryStream _Stream = new MemoryStream();
    public JsonContent(object value) {

        Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");
        var jw = new JsonTextWriter( new StreamWriter(_Stream));
        jw.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
        var serializer = new JsonSerializer();
        serializer.Serialize(jw, value);
        jw.Flush();
        _Stream.Position = 0;

    }
    protected override Task SerializeToStreamAsync(Stream stream, TransportContext context) {
        return _Stream.CopyToAsync(stream);
    }

    protected override bool TryComputeLength(out long length) {
        length = _Stream.Length;
        return true;
    }
}

Then you can do,

      public HttpResponseMessage Get() {
            return new HttpResponseMessage() {
                Content = new JsonContent(new
                {
                    Success = true, //error
                    Message = "Success" //return exception
                })
            };
        }

just like you do with JsonResult.