[Mono-aspnet-list] SOLVED ScriptService with JSON instead of WebService -- how?

Fri Nov 30 21:50:53 UTC 2012

Mono rules, mistakes were mine:

1) I called with $.ajax( { ..., type:"POST", ...} ), but gave the
   method arguments GET-style, as url query string ("?name=bob")
   => arguments have to be given as $.ajax(..., data:"{ name:\"bob\" }"
   Also contentType:"application/json" has to be set,
   whereas dataType:"json" seems to be optional in my setup

2) I did not have a properly configured Web.config file in the
   applications root directory; therefore, the handlers/factories
   required for properly processing ScriptMethod queries were not
   registered.
   => Easiest way of creating a properly configured Web.config is
   to go to application root and to issue "mconfig --target=web af AJAX".
   Easy enough!

3) The minimal attribute set required for ScriptMethods are
   [WebService]  for the service class
   [WebMethod] and [ScriptMethod] for the method.

And thanks Mike and Edgar for your ideas!

best wishes,
Mikko

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Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 19:17:39 +0200
From: "Mikko Vuoti" <vuoti at iki.fi>
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Subject: [Mono-aspnet-list] ScriptService with JSON instead of
	WebService --	how?
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There seems to be a few questions and answers around on this subject, but so
far I have not found the missing piece of wisdom to get my script service
working.

I want to create a service to be consumed by a jQuery.Ajax driven javascript
app. However, I can't get the method configured so that it would return JSON
instead of XML.

Here is the trivial C#
======================
using System;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Services;
using System.Web.Script.Services;

namespace ScriptServiceTest
{
  [ScriptService]
  public class MyService : WebService
  {
    [ScriptMethod]
    public string Hello(string name)
    {
      return("Hello,  " + name);
    }
  }
}
======================
I have added the reference to System.Web.Extensions.

I have also generated the web.config (mconfig --target=web af AJAX), not
sure if this has to do with the problem, though.

The code above doesn't make the service available. If I add
[WebService]/[WebMethod] attributes to the class/method definition the
method becomes available as a regular web service, i.e. it returns XML - not
JSON.

I've been testing on Mono / .NET 3.5 and 4.0.

Any pointer to a resource explaining how script services should be set up
with mono is warmly welcome!

thanks your time!

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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:36:04 -0200
From: Edgar <edgarrc at gmail.com>
To: <mono-aspnet-list at lists.ximian.com>
Subject: [Mono-aspnet-list] RES: ScriptService with JSON instead of
	WebService --	how?
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Maybe this solution can help you, see all answers.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11088294/asp-net-asmx-web-service-returni
ng-xml-instead-of-json

Edgar

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[mailto:mono-aspnet-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com] Em nome de Mikko Vuoti
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Assunto: [Mono-aspnet-list] ScriptService with JSON instead of WebService --
how?