ASP.NET MVC and Json.NET
This is an ActionResult I wrote to return JSON from ASP.NET MVC to the browser using Json.NET.
The benefit of using JsonNetResult over the built in JsonResult is you get a better serializer (IMO [:)]) and all the other benefits of Json.NET like nicely formatted JSON text.
public class JsonNetResult : ActionResult
{
public Encoding ContentEncoding { get; set; }
public string ContentType { get; set; }
public object Data { get; set; }
public JsonSerializerSettings SerializerSettings { get; set; }
public Formatting Formatting { get; set; }
public JsonNetResult()
{
SerializerSettings = new JsonSerializerSettings();
}
public override void ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context)
{
if (context == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("context");
HttpResponseBase response = context.HttpContext.Response;
response.ContentType = !string.IsNullOrEmpty(ContentType)
? ContentType
: "application/json";
if (ContentEncoding != null)
response.ContentEncoding = ContentEncoding;
if (Data != null)
{
JsonTextWriter writer = new JsonTextWriter(response.Output) { Formatting = Formatting };
JsonSerializer serializer = JsonSerializer.Create(SerializerSettings);
serializer.Serialize(writer, Data);
writer.Flush();
}
}
}
Using JsonNetResult within your application is pretty simple. The example below serializes the NumberFormatInfo settings for the .NET invariant culture.
public ActionResult GetNumberFormatting()
{
JsonNetResult jsonNetResult = new JsonNetResult();
jsonNetResult.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
jsonNetResult.Data = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.NumberFormat;
return jsonNetResult;
}
And here is the nicely formatted result.
{
"CurrencyDecimalDigits": 2,
"CurrencyDecimalSeparator": ".",
"IsReadOnly": true,
"CurrencyGroupSizes": [
3
],
"NumberGroupSizes": [
3
],
"PercentGroupSizes": [
3
],
"CurrencyGroupSeparator": ",",
"CurrencySymbol": "¤",
"NaNSymbol": "NaN",
"CurrencyNegativePattern": 0,
"NumberNegativePattern": 1,
"PercentPositivePattern": 0,
"PercentNegativePattern": 0,
"NegativeInfinitySymbol": "-Infinity",
"NegativeSign": "-",
"NumberDecimalDigits": 2,
"NumberDecimalSeparator": ".",
"NumberGroupSeparator": ",",
"CurrencyPositivePattern": 0,
"PositiveInfinitySymbol": "Infinity",
"PositiveSign": "+",
"PercentDecimalDigits": 2,
"PercentDecimalSeparator": ".",
"PercentGroupSeparator": ",",
"PercentSymbol": "%",
"PerMilleSymbol": "‰",
"NativeDigits": [
"0",
"1",
"2",
"3",
"4",
"5",
"6",
"7",
"8",
"9"
],
"DigitSubstitution": 1
}
