Can you upgrade to Umbraco 6.1 and then you can use the Web API controllers designed for this? See http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/WebApi/

We haven't launched, but we are stuck at 4.11.10 at the moment.. Any ideas on a workaround that just uses the umbraco SurfaceController extension class?

Hi John

I'm on 6. something, but using the MVC controller to return Json data.

So I'd expect this to work as a method in your surface controller:

public JsonResult GetJsonData()
{
    return Json(new { Message = "Hello world" }, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}

It's then routed via: /umbraco/surface/MyController/GetJsonData

Hope that helps

Andy

Thanks for the reply,

    [PluginController("DataSearch")]
    public class DataSearchSurfaceController : Umbraco.Web.Mvc.SurfaceController
    {      
        private DataFilterHelper dal = new DataFilterHelper();
        #region categories drop downs

        [HttpGet]
        public JsonResult GetCategories()
        {
            IEnumerable<CategoryModel> categ = dal.FindAllCategories();
            return Json(categ, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
        }
        #endregion

}

this wasn't routed to /umbraco/surface//GetCategories

thanks!

Just edited my post above - part of the URL I posted got eaten.

You're the best!

umbraco/surface/(controller class name w/o Controller)/GetJsonData gets me that data now

Hi,

I have a Controller, which har JsonResult method. I want to call this Json method from controller in my View. but it can not find the umbraco controller method. this works in pure MVC application.

 public class StoreSurfaceController: SurfaceController
    {
        [HttpPost]
        public JsonResult Checkout(ShoppingCartModel model)
        {
            string message = string.Format("Successfully processed {0} item(s).", model.CartItems.Count.ToString());
            return Json(new { Success = true, Message = message });
        }
    }

Json to call controller from the view

  function PostData() {
        $.ajax({
            url: 'umbraco/surface/Store/Checkout',  //this is the umbraco surface path to controller action. problem her!!!!
            async: false,
            type: "POST",
            data: JSON.stringify(m_ShoppingCart),
            dataType: "json",
            contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
            error: function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
                alert(jqXHR + "-" + textStatus + "-" + errorThrown);
            },
            success: function (data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
                $("#Results").show();
                $("#ResultMessage").html(data.Message);
            }
        });
    } 

 thanks in advance...

Try umbraco/surface/StoreSurface/Checkout

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