jquery ajax call return JSON parsing error

Question

I am using jquery to call an ajax wcf method that returns a list of objects as a JSON string. The JSON string looks like this when inspecting it in fiddler2 (in TextView):

Answer 1

I've found a workaround:

The first problem was the circular reference exception on the entity model. To overcome this I use the following code to Detach my entities from the context and then serialize them to strings. I then serialize them on the client using the code below that.

Service

    [WebGet(ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json)]
    [OperationContract]
    public string[] GetPeople(Guid groupId)
    {
        using (SchedulerContext context = new SchedulerContext())
        {

            var people = (from p in context.People
                          where p.Group_ID == groupId
                          select p).ToList();

            JavaScriptSerializer ser = new JavaScriptSerializer();
            string[] result = new string[people.Count];
            for (int i = 0; i

Client

        $.ajax(
                {
                    type: "GET",
                    //dataType: "application/json",
                    //dataType: "text/plain",
                    contentType: "json",
                    data: { groupId: 'ae09a080-5d7c-4e92-9a87-591574b7c4b8' },
                    //data: { groupId: 'test' },
                    //data: { groupId: '739526F1-7C58-4E3B-97D8-4870948BFE32' },
                    url: "WebAPI.svc/GetPeople",
                    error: function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
                        alert(jqXHR.resultText);
                    },
                    success: function (people) {
                        //the returned param "people" is of type string[], so each string needs parsed 
                        $(people).each(function (index, value) {
                            var person = $.parseJSON(value);
                            //now I can use the Person object
                        });

                    }
                }

        );