Return JsonResult from web api without its properties

Question

I have a Web API controller and from there I\'m returning an object as JSON from an action.

I\'m doing that like this:

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Answer 1

I had a similar problem (differences being I wanted to return an object that was already converted to a json string and my controller get returns a IHttpActionResult)

Here is how I solved it. First I declared a utility class

public class RawJsonActionResult : IHttpActionResult
{
    private readonly string _jsonString;

    public RawJsonActionResult(string jsonString)
    {
        _jsonString = jsonString;
    }

    public Task ExecuteAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
    {
        var content = new StringContent(_jsonString);
        content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");
        var response = new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK) { Content = content };
        return Task.FromResult(response);
    }
}

This class can then be used in your controller. Here is a simple example

public IHttpActionResult Get()
{
    var jsonString = "{\"id\":1,\"name\":\"a small object\" }";
    return new RawJsonActionResult(jsonString);
}