Re: Web API Accept type
I would provide two different methods. It's easier for you and easier for the end developers to understand. In the end I sort of did that. It's best not to fight the system, so I changed the method so that it simply returns a serialized object (a rather complicated one), but no matter what format the request asks for I just let the infrastructure pick the serializer and return it. I don't even tamper with the shape of the JSON or XML that's returned. Yeah, *don't fight the system* if you can avoid it! -- *GK*
Re: Web API Accept type
I would provide two different methods. It's easier for you and easier for the end developers to understand. Davy Sent from my iPhone On 17 Aug 2015, at 23:56, Greg Keogh gfke...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, in Web API when you sent an object back in the response it's automatically serialized as JSON or XML depending upon the Accept header. This is great, but I have to cheat the system slightly and send back manually tweaked XML only if the XML serializer is active. Rather than look at the raw text of the request Accept headers, is there is more formal way of knowing which serializer is active (if this means anything) -- GK
Re: Web API Accept type
Hi Greg, Sounds like this is what you want: http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/formats-and-model-binding/media-formatters You can define your own media formatter to customise your response for particular types Regards, Nelson Chan On 18 August 2015 at 20:04, Greg Keogh gfke...@gmail.com wrote: I would provide two different methods. It's easier for you and easier for the end developers to understand. In the end I sort of did that. It's best not to fight the system, so I changed the method so that it simply returns a serialized object (a rather complicated one), but no matter what format the request asks for I just let the infrastructure pick the serializer and return it. I don't even tamper with the shape of the JSON or XML that's returned. Yeah, *don't fight the system* if you can avoid it! -- *GK*
Re: Web API Accept type
Is you tweak of the xml generic, ie. will happen to every xml response? If so I'd imagine the method would be to override the default xml serializer (or implement some interface) and tell web api to use your one instead of the default. Testing which one is active by any means just seems hacky. Or perhaps I've misunderstood On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Greg Keogh gfke...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, in Web API when you sent an object back in the response it's automatically serialized as JSON or XML depending upon the Accept header. This is great, but I have to cheat the system slightly and send back manually tweaked XML only if the XML serializer is active. Rather than look at the raw text of the request Accept headers, is there is more formal way of knowing which serializer is active (if this means anything) -- *GK*
