Sending JSON object to the server via http GET

Question

I am looking for sending JSON object to the server via GET. Chris\'s answer on Post an Array of Objects via JSON to ASP.Net MVC3 works for the http POST but not for GET.

Answer 1

No :-) Thats not how get works.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html

(see 9.3 GET)

"The GET method means retrieve whatever information (in the form of an entity) is identified by the Request-URI"

Request-URI being the important part here. There is no concept of body data in a GET request.

Answer 2

Try changing method to public ActionResult Screenreport(HttpRequestMessage request)

Then use below code to get JSON object.

data = request.RequestUri.Query;
data = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(data).Get("request");

Answer 3

Try this example in Javascript:

var someObject = {
   id:123456,
   message:"my message",
}

var objStr = JSON.stringify(someObject);

var escapedObjStr = encodeURIComponent(objStr);

var getUrlStr = "http://myserver:port?json="+escapedObjStr

and now you can forward this URL to your server. I know this is not in any .NET language but you can definitely find the equivalent methods used, or just use the JS right away.