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WebService with ResponseFormat.Json won't return JSON, only XML

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User-575693569 posted

I can't get my ASP.NET AJAX webservice to return JSON, it always returns XML. The docs say that it should return JSON automatically -- how do I enable this?

Here is my WebService.cs source:

1    using System;
2    using System.Web;
3    using System.Collections;
4    using System.Web.Services;
5    using System.Web.Services.Protocols;
6    using Microsoft.Web.Script.Services;
7    
8    /// <summary>
9    /// Summary description for WebService
10   /// </summary>
11   
12   [ScriptService]
13   public class WebService : System.Web.Services.WebService {
14   
15       public WebService () {
16   
17           //Uncomment the following line if using designed components 
18           //InitializeComponent(); 
19       }
20   
21       [WebMethod]
22       [ScriptMethod(ResponseFormat=ResponseFormat.Json)]
23       public string HelloWorld() {
24           return "Hello World";
25       }
26       
27   }
28   
29

Here is my Test.htm source:

1    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
2    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
3    <head>
4        <title>Untitled Page</title>
5        <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
6        
7            var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
8            
9            function Roll()
10           {
11               if (req.readyState == 4)
12               {
13                   alert(req.responseText);
14                   alert("exiting");
15               }
16           }
17           
18           function Test()
19           {
20               alert("starting");
21               req.open("POST", "http://localhost:52120/JSON_Test_4/WebService.asmx/HelloWorld", true);
22               req.onreadystatechange = Roll;
23               req.send(null);
24           }
25           
26           
27       </script>
28   </head>
29   <body>
30       <div id="test">Bleh</div>
31       <button onclick="javascript:Test()">TEST IT</button>
32   </body>
33   </html>
34

Why is the webservice only returning XML? How do I get it to return JSON as advertised?

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 11:21 PM

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User-1220773483 posted

Here the request generated by AJAX.NET Beta 2 proxy, see 'js' before method name:

POST /Source/service.asmx/js/UpdateChat HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:1123
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/1.5.0.8
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 50
Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=qpspnn45mgxzlp20xdj0dvng; .SLCVISITOR=200529225
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache

{"a":246144119,"v":200529225,"n":18,"z":-1,"m":[]}
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User-1220773483 posted

I am not sure, did you try to specify content-type in request?

Content-Type: application/json

Thursday, December 14, 2006 2:35 AM
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User-1220773483 posted

Here the request generated by AJAX.NET Beta 2 proxy, see 'js' before method name:

POST /Source/service.asmx/js/UpdateChat HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:1123
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/1.5.0.8
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 50
Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=qpspnn45mgxzlp20xdj0dvng; .SLCVISITOR=200529225
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache

{"a":246144119,"v":200529225,"n":18,"z":-1,"m":[]}
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Thursday, December 14, 2006 2:41 AM
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User933528419 posted

Hi,

I believe that this is true when you are using the Ajax architecture to invoke the Web service method.
The way you're doing, you're using the XMLHttpRequest object directly.

You should add a ScriptManager with a ServiceReference inside pointing to your Web service and then invoking your method in the javascript function like this:
WebService.HelloWorld(OnSucceeded);

The OnSucceeded is your succeeded callback function that you also have to code. For example:
function OnSucceeded(result)
{
alert(result);
}

Hope this helps,

Maíra

Thursday, December 14, 2006 2:09 PM
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User-575693569 posted

This is the correct answer! [:D]

With this, it is possible to merge Mochikit and Atlas into pure awesome.

Thanks all for the help!

Thursday, December 14, 2006 9:23 PM
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User-303649323 posted

I'm still having this problem but I wrote my web service in .NET and it won't stop wrapping the JSON in xml. How do you get around this? Do I need to make my return type not a string? You're saying its the way you call the service? i'm using JSONscriptRequest from a .js file I found online for using dynamic script tags. I'm trying to get around the cross domain request security issue.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<string xmlns="http://mapserv.utah.gov/WSUTSGID_Geolocator">ws_results({"MatchAddress":"326 E South Temple St, 84111","Geocoder":"U024.GC_StatewideStreets","Score":81,"UTM_X":425585.8,"UTM_Y":4513511.97,"LONG_X":-111.8817402,"LAT_Y":40.7692131})</string>

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 3:11 PM
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User-1595463325 posted

I have a similar problem. I want to consum the json ws method from a simple html, javascript page without any asp.net. Should I serialize my List-generic List to string format or return this GnericList with any manual serialization?

In JavaScript I used, nut it´s not possible to access the object in the client site.

.....

req.open("POST", "http://domain/service.asmx/getProjectsJson",true);
                req.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/json");
                req.onreadystatechange = Roll;
                req.send(null);

.....

//var object= eval('(' + req.responseText + ')');

When accessing the req.getAllResponseHeaders(); the content-type shows text/xml instead of application/json. How can I solve this problem?

Monday, April 7, 2008 1:47 PM
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User145862239 posted

I was running into the same issue. I modified my .NET 2.0 Web Service with AJAX Extensions 1.0 to include the ScriptHandlerFactory, [ScriptService] attribute and [ScriptMethod(ResponseFormat=ResponseFormat.Json)] attribute and property.

You must specify the content-type as application/json when making the ajax call. Fiddler will show the response as application/json.

xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=state_Change; xmlhttp.open("POST",url,true); xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/json"); xmlhttp.send(null);

On a side note, I have been unable to use <form method="POST" enctype="application/json"> to get my asmx page to return json. My original request is always application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
Monday, May 5, 2008 5:50 PM
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User-2011131586 posted

I was trying to call a webservice method through the jquery ajax metod and guess what: I was always getting an xml response

$.ajax(

{
type: "POST",
url: http://localhost:50080/ElearningWebApplication/ChatWebService.asmx/InserMessage,
data: "{}",
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
dataType: "json",
success: GetMessagesBack,

fail: Failure

}

);

I included the correct attributes to both the service and the method
[WebService(Namespace = "http://www.action.gr/")]
[WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]
[System.ComponentModel.ToolboxItem(false)]
// To allow this Web Service to be called from script, using ASP.NET AJAX, uncomment the following line.
[System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService]
public class ChatWebService : System.Web.Services.WebService

{
           [WebMethod]
          [ScriptMethod(ResponseFormat = ResponseFormat.Json)]
          public string InsertMessage(string text, int roomID, int userID, string color, int toUserID)
         {

                .....

           }

}

After 3 hours of searching everywhere i realized that I had to add the following to the web config the following besides the fact i am not using the scriptmanager or what ever its name is!!!!!! But it is so obvious...not!!!!

<httpHandlers>
<remove verb="*" path="*.asmx"/>
<add verb="*" path="*.asmx" type="System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory" validate="false"/>
</httpHandlers>

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:32 PM

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