Very likely a rather trivial question, but I simply couldn't find an appropriate answer. I want to return a "JsonResult" without the actual result having ANY property names whatsoever. Here is a little example of what I want to achieve:
["xbox",
["Xbox 360", "Xbox cheats", "Xbox 360 games"],
["The official Xbox website from Microsoft", "Codes and walkthroughs", "Games and accessories"],
["http://www.xbox.com","http://www.example.com/xboxcheatcodes.aspx", "http://www.example.com/games"]]
Yes, some very ordinary source code already exists, but I doubt this is of any relevance. However, here it is:
public JsonResult OpensearchJson(string search)
{
/* returns some domain specific IEnumerable<> of a certain class */
var entites = DoSomeSearching(search);
var names = entities.Select(m => new { m.Name });
var description = entities.Select(m => new { m.Description });
var urls = entities.Select(m => new { m.Url });
var entitiesJson = new { search, names, description, urls };
return Json(entitiesJson, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}
Here you go:
public ActionResult OpensearchJson(string search)
{
/* returns some domain specific IEnumerable<> of a certain class */
var entities = DoSomeSearching(search);
var names = entities.Select(m => m.Name);
var description = entities.Select(m => m.Description);
var urls = entities.Select(m => m.Url);
var entitiesJson = new object[] { search, names, description, urls };
return Json(entitiesJson, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}
UPDATE:
and for those that are impatient to test without an actual repository:
public ActionResult OpensearchJson(string search)
{
var entities = new[]
{
new { Name = "Xbox 360", Description = "The official Xbox website from Microsoft", Url = "http://www.xbox.com" },
new { Name = "Xbox cheats", Description = "Codes and walkthroughs", Url = "http://www.example.com/xboxcheatcodes.aspx" },
new { Name = "Xbox 360 games", Description = "Games and accessories", Url = "http://www.example.com/games" },
};
var names = entities.Select(m => m.Name);
var description = entities.Select(m => m.Description);
var urls = entities.Select(m => m.Url);
var entitiesJson = new object[] { search, names, description, urls };
return Json(entitiesJson, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}
returns:
[
"xbox",
[
"Xbox 360",
"Xbox cheats",
"Xbox 360 games"
],
[
"The official Xbox website from Microsoft",
"Codes and walkthroughs",
"Games and accessories"
],
[
"http://www.xbox.com",
"http://www.example.com/xboxcheatcodes.aspx",
"http://www.example.com/games"
]
]
which is exactly the expected JSON.