Convert JSON string to JsonResult in MVC

Question

We are trying to make mock service to serve JSON. We have plain JSON strings stored in static files and want to serve them to client as they are, without any additional wrappers. E.g. we have json string {"result_code":200,{"name":"John", "lastName": "Doe"}} and we want to get json response on client just like this without any Content or Data wrappers.

We have solution where we use data contracts and deserialize json to C# objects, but that's a bit complicated and we don't need it.

Thank you

Answer 1

You can do this by referencing System.Web.Mvc. Example in a quick console app I threw together:

using System;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using Newtonsoft.Json;

namespace Sandbox
{
    class Program
    {
        private static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            //Added "person" to the JSON so it would deserialize
            var testData = "{\"result_code\":200, \"person\":{\"name\":\"John\", \"lastName\": \"Doe\"}}";

            var result = new JsonResult
            {
                Data = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(testData)
            };

            Console.WriteLine(result.Data);
            Console.ReadKey();
        }

    }
}

You can just return the JsonResult from the mock method.