Greg, let the web API deal with the formatting. Your controller should
ideally just return an object which will be formatted according to the
request.
(apologies for brevity, I am playing mini golf with my son)
Try it in Fiddler and you can see how changing the request will change the
output. If you hard code the response type you are introducing unnecessary
coupling snd potential future headaches.
Sent from my flux capacitor. Please excuse brevity and any odd autocorrect
errors.
On 20/01/2014 1:54 PM, "Greg Keogh" <g...@mira.net> wrote:
> Please ignore previous message as I hit Send instead of Save (bloody Gmail
> interface!). Here's the correct message:
>
> Chaps, after some doodling around I see I can get the Accept values
> straight out of the Request in the controller's code. That does now seem to
> be the logical way of choosing the response format.
>
> More confusion though ... I tried to write a controller method that
> returned either plain text or XML, but the samples I've found return
> different types. Here are the two samples:
>
> public HttpActionResult Sample1()
> return Ok("hello");
>
> public HttpResponseMessage Sample2()
> return new HttpResponseMessage() { Content = new StringContent("hello") };
>
> The firsts returns <String>hello</String> and the second returns the plain
> text "hello". But they're different return types and I can't figure out how
> get one method to return Xml or text. Anyone know how. I'm still searching.
>
> Greg K
>
