[Mono-dev] POSTing objects in JSON format...

[Steve Bjorg]

I'm going to go out on the limb here and guess that under Mono it assumes the input to be always XML and doesn't look at the MIME type.

The "error on line 1, position 1" in XmlTextReader seems to be a dead giveaway for that. :)

- Steve

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On Jan 25, 2010, at 4:47 PM, ed.segura wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm wondering why this format doesn't work for mono, when it does for
> windows?
> 
> I'm trying to send a simple post request to the service, which contains the
> following:
> 
> {"composite":{"BoolValue":true,"StringValue":"aaa"},"composite2":{"BoolValue":true,"StringValue":"bbb"}}
> 
> This works fine in VS2008, but I keep getting an exception when I try to
> POST that data using mono:
> 
> Exit HttpContextAcquired:
> http://127.0.0.1:8080/Service1.svc/PostDataUsingTwoCompositeTypes
> Exit AspNetReplyChannel.WaitForRequest
> AspNetReplyChannel caught an error: System.Xml.XmlException: Text node
> cannot appear in this state.  Line 1, position 1.
>  at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.ReadText (Boolean notWhitespace) [0x00199] in
> /usr/src/packages/BUILD/mono-2.6.1/mcs/class/System.XML/System.Xml/XmlTextReader.cs:1699 
>  at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.ReadContent () [0x0015c] in
> /usr/src/packages/BUILD/mono-2.6.1/mcs/class/System.XML/System.Xml/XmlTextReader.cs:1345 
>  at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.Read () [0x00141] in
> /usr/src/packages/BUILD/mono-2.6.1/mcs/class/System.XML/System.Xml/XmlTextReader.cs:619 
>  at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.Read () [0x0006b] in
> /usr/src/packages/BUILD/mono-2.6.1/mcs/class/System.XML/System.Xml/XmlTextReader2.cs:564 
> ...
> 
> Am I missing something? I tried with several variations of the syntax, but
> nothing seems to work. I also looked in the forums for json serialization
> issues on 'post', but no luck.
> 
> Any help will be highly appreciated...
> ed-
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