Comments on: ASP.NET MVC – Create easy REST API with JSON and XML

By: Aleem

Aleem — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:40:48 +0000

The content type should not be form-urlencoded if you are serializing the form as json. If it is its will not be handled the by the filter. It’s possible the submit button triggers the submission and preempts the Javascript.

By: Emad Ibrahim

Emad Ibrahim — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:23:53 +0000

Great tip but I found that when I run this on a POST action e.g.

[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
[JsonPox]
public ActionResult DeleteUser(Guid? id)

The ContentType is equal to "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

Instead, I use request.AcceptTypes[0]

PS: I am using jquery to perform an ajax post e.g.

$.post(url,data,callback,"json")

By: JSON Serializers In .NET - Aleem Bawany

JSON Serializers In .NET - Aleem Bawany — Sun, 31 May 2009 10:50:23 +0000

[...] was introduced to the various serialization options in .NET while trying to build the JSON and XML filter for ASP.NET MVC. In this post I’ll take a look at the different JSON serializers in .NET and the reasons to [...]

By: Aleem

Aleem — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:27:45 +0000

I have perused through your posts but they seems overly complicated for something that should be fairly trivial. Regarding JSON/XML, in part 3 you handle it by having switch statements in your action methods which is tedious and repetitive with a management overhead--it should be done in a common location. Also I am not sure I agree with format type information as a query parameter (?format=json). It doesn't seem RESTful because that can be inferred by HTTP headers.

The filter here is very easy to implement, you just need to decorate your action methods and that's pretty much it. You don't need to write any special code to handle JSON/POX--it just works automatically.

By: Piers Lawson

Piers Lawson — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:42:00 +0000

Have a look at my series on creating a RESTful web service using MVC. I've implemented XSLT based views, a "Help" representation etc. Hopefully it will be of use to you!

By: Persistence Ignorance in ADO.NET Entity Framework - Aleem Bawany

Persistence Ignorance in ADO.NET Entity Framework - Aleem Bawany — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:25:51 +0000

[...] previously published a JSON / POX Filter for MVC developers working with RESTful services. It works really well in that it allows a [...]

By: Aleem

Aleem — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:41:36 +0000

Thanks, I will certainly check it out.

By: Bret

Bret — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:16:22 +0000

You should try SubSonic out I think that it flows with MVC a lot more as Rob Conery is now working on MVC and SubSonic.

By: Aleem

Aleem — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:38:24 +0000

Well, with MVC going RTM it was hard to resist. Web forms are still good for what they do (VS designer, third-party controls, rapid prototyping with automatic handling of sessions states and postbacks) but for my present case, ASP.NET MVC is the better choice.

And now that ADO.NET Entity Framework has also gone RTM, I’m giving it a good, hard look but my inclination is toward Linq to SQL (No NHibernate for now due to lack of jump-start scenarios with MVC or VS 2008).

By: Shey

Shey — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:05:29 +0000

Get to see that you finally jumped off of the ASP.NET webforms bandwagon, now when will you fall in love with ORM?