Thanks

Just to verify the Json data that you showed on your jqgrid demo is an array right?

Response: No, it’s one object which contains an array as a property. Did you look at it?

In another word it might be vulnerable to the cross site attack if I leave it as it is?

Response: No, only GETs which return an array as the "root" object are vulnerable to this kind of attack.

Good catch! Thanks for the help.

Yet another twist. The pre-2.0 data looks like this:

{"total":1,"page":1,"records":2,"rows":[{"id":"3","cell":["3","Ajax","Mike"," "]},{"id":"1","cell":["1","Gutierrez","Sandy"," "]}]}

Now jqGrid chokes - presumably because of the ContentEncoding and ContentType, though the JsonRequestBehaviour passed as expected:

{"ContentEncoding":null,"ContentType":null,"Data":{"total":1,"page":1,"records":2,"rows":[{"id":"3","cell"
:["3","Ajax","Mike"," "]},{"id":"1","cell":["1","Gutierrez","Sandy"," "]}]},"JsonRequestBehavior"
:1}

Thanks for the swift response (another early riser).

I tried something similar the other day w/o success, but maybe I got my hands crossed. I’ll give it a shot.

return new JsonResult
{
Data = stuff,
JsonRequestBehavior = JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet
};

This does work.

First, Kudos on your blog. I found it about the first day you started your series on MVC/JSON/JqGrid and you are one of the best of the best.

The only thing I didn’t like about your solution was the label redundancy in JSON:
{"Total":1,"Page":1,"Records":2,"Rows":[{"ID":3,"BC_LASTNAME":"Ajax","BC_FIRSTNAME":"Mike","BC_MIDDLEINITIAL"
:null},{"ID":1,"BC_LASTNAME":"Gutierrez","BC_FIRSTNAME":"Sandy","BC_MIDDLEINITIAL":null}],"UserData"
:null}

I’ve been very effective with essentially my own formatted JSON using the following, based upon your original guidance:

JsonResult jres = JsonHelper.ToJsonResult(contacts, totalPages, page, totalRecords, "ID", new string[] { "ID", "BC_LASTNAME", "BC_FIRSTNAME", "BC_MIDDLEINITIAL" });
return jres;

My solution generates the column names only once and works great. Then comes MVC 2 with JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet. Since it isn’t built technically by Json, there doesn’t appear to be a way to use the JsonRequestBehavior, yet it still fails with the JsonRequestBehavior error on VS2010.

I haven’t found a way to marry the two approaches. Any ideas?