Asp.Net Mvc 4 JsonResult

Question

I wrote this code,

public JsonResult Index(string query)
 {
 return Json(new object[] { "id", "text"}, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
 }

And result,

["id","text"]

But I want to look like below,

[{"value": 1 , "text": "Amsterdam"}]

How can I do this? Thanks

Answer 1

Try creating an anonymous object with the properties...

return Json(new object[] { new { value = 1, text = "Amsterdam" } }, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);

Or create a class to return a strongly typed array...

private class City {
 public int value { get; set; }
 public string text { get; set; }
}
// ...
return Json(new City[] { new City { value = 1, text = "Amsterdam" } }, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);