Json structure is returned empty, without property names and values when using Newtonsoft JsonConvert in FB C# client

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I'm working on asp.net mvc 4 application which uses Facebook C# SDK (6.0.10.0) and Newtonsoft.Json (4.5.0.0).

Request with FacebookClient returns expando object:

[Authorize]
public ActionResult GetFbData(string path = "me"){
    var expando = this.fb.Get(path);

    return Json(expando);
}

Returned Json looks like:

[{"Key":"id","Value":"100000xxxxxxxx"},{"Key":"name","Value":"John Doe"} ... ]

I want to return it in format {id:100000xxxxxxx, name:"John Doe", ... } so I added this to the code which creates my fb client:

fb.SetJsonSerializers(JsonConvert.SerializeObject,
                      JsonConvert.DeserializeObject);

Same code from above now returns:

[[[]],[[]],[[]],[[]],[[]],[[]],[[[[]],[[]]]],[[[[]],[[]]]],[[]],[[]],[[[[[[[]],[[]]...]

I can get desired result with:

return Content(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(Expando));

This returns proper Json, but Content-Type is text/html; charset=utf-8, and I'm wondering how I can return the desired format as JsonResult without manually setting response headers etc, I just want to change default serialization behavior without re-implementing serializer etc.

There must be something simple that is done with single line of code to change this behavior, and I'm hoping that someone already found it.

Barranger Ridler · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-13 14:50:46Z

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Not sure if you're still looking for an answer, but you almost had it. Content takes a second parameter that is the content type, so if you change it to be

return Content(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(Expando), "application/json");

it should work as expected

answered Mar 13, 2013 at 14:50

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Goran Obradovic Over a year ago

Yes, that is how I "solved" it, but I did not consider it a "real" solution because I wanted to be able to return .net JsonResult.

Brian Muenzenmeyer · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-13 15:05:42Z

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For anyone that may see this in the future, when I encountered this same bug the root cause was that the Json serialization was failing because there was no explicit type set on my result object.

I.e. inside my Controller get

return Json(res.Data, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet); where res.Data was of type object Result<object>.Data instead of a class.

answered Oct 13, 2014 at 15:05

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