Hi Matthew,

try to use UmbracoAuthorizedJsonController instead of UmbracoApiController. I had use this a long time ago and I think it has worked with this. Maybe I'm wrong but also, just try it ;)
 

Best,

Sören

Thanks for the swift response, Soren.

Unfortunately, UmbracoAuthorizedJsonController does not expose the Json method either : (

Hi Matthew

I might be way of here - But have you seen the documentation on WebApi? https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/WebApi/ - Could that help? Or am I missing the point? :)

/Jan

Hi, Jan.

I've read through that doc a few times but don't see any reference to alternatives for methods that would normally be on ApiControllor (specifically, ApiController.Json).

Here's the gist of what the working controller should look like:

public ActionResult Patents([FromBody] FormDataCollection formData)
{
    //Custom logic that generates an object from my model
    var response = GenerateObjectFromModel();

    return Json(response);
}

This would work if my controller inherits from ApiController, but UmbracoApiController doesn't seem to have the same Json method that turns an object into a JsonResult.

Matthew,

UmbracoApiController inherits from ApiController which means you have access to all fields and methods from both in your controller.

I don't see a JsonResult or Json object on either of these controllers, but it looks like that object lives in Sytem.Web.Mvc: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.jsonresult%28v=vs.118%29.aspx

If you just need to return Json you could try:

    public HttpResponseMessage GetPeople()
    {
      //get your object from wherever, database or cache...
      JavaScriptSerializer serialiser = new JavaScriptSerializer();
      HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentType = "application/json";
      HttpContext.Current.Response.Write(serialiser.Serialize(yourObject));
      return new HttpResponseMessage();
     }

I'm not sure if that will work but you should be able to access JsonResult from within System.Web.Mvc provided you have a reference to it.

I've created a package for this a while back that forces the controller to output JSON rather than XML or JSON depending on the accept header.

You can read more about it on GitHub:

https://github.com/abjerner/Skybrud.WebApi.Json

To use the package, you would just have to add a single attribute on the class, and WebApi will then automatically convert the return value of each method into JSON.

Here is a small example:

using Skybrud.WebApi.Json;
using Umbraco.Web.WebApi;

namespace WebApplication1.Controllers {

    [JsonOnlyConfiguration]
    public class JsonTestController : UmbracoApiController {

        public object GetTest() {
            return new {
                meta = new {
                    code = 200
                },
                data = "Yay! We have some JSON!"
            };
        }

    }

}

Thank you Anders, I'll take a look at that package when I get to this later.

For now, I'm just using a Surface Controller with the following and it works perfectly:

return Json(response, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);

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