WCF: how can we have services in which their output would be serialized by JSON method?

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wcf: how can we have benefits on using JSON serialization in our services?

Can you elaborate on the question. What do you mean, "how can we have benefits..."? do you mean, *what does the server code look like*? Do you mean *what does the client code look like*? Do you mean *I have existing service, what do I have to do to use JSON*? Please elaborate. — Cheeso, Mar 07 '10 at 11:22

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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Maybe you can find some answers and references in json-or-soap-xml.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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answered Mar 07 '10 at 10:53

gimel

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 07 '10 at 11:23

You can use Json serialization starting from framework 3.5 (use DataContractJsonSerializer).

I think, we have benefits on using all benefits of Json format vs XML. Of course, wcf service's clients have to support this format :).

Some benefits of JSON :

JSON is well suited to data-interchange than XML.

JSON is much simpler than XML.

JSON messages have less size than the same XML ones, because json is not a document markup language.

JSON is optimized for data.

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