JsonConvert.DeserializeObject and "d" wrapper in WCF

Question

By default WCF service wrap JSON response in "d" wrapper and there I found a problem with parsing it.

If I parse with JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(response) where response is

"{\"d\":\"{\"a0b70d2f-7fe4-4aa2-b600-066201eab82d\":\"Thelma\",\"d56d4d4f-6029-40df-a23b-de27617a1e43\":\"Louise\"}\"}"

I gor an Error:

After parsing a value an unexpected character was encoutered: a. Line 1, position 9.

If I change response into

"{\"a0b70d2f-7fe4-4aa2-b600-066201eab82d\":\"Thelma\",\"d56d4d4f-6029-40df-a23b-de27617a1e43\":\"Louise\"}"

I got it working.

So how to parse this "d" wrapped JSON responses from WCF services? Is there any better way to parse JSON?

Answer 1

I'm assuming you are using <enableWebScript/> in your behavior config, replace that with <webHttp defaultOutgoingResponseFormat="Json"/> and you will get nice and clean json, no "d" and no "__type"