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Add better browser support and pretty print JSON in C# WebApi
/// <summary>
/// WebAPI add better browser support and pretty print.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Usage:
/// WebApiConfig.Register()
/// config.Formatters.Add(new BrowserJsonFormatter());
/// ...
///
/// Source:
/// Todd Menier from StackOverflow
/// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9847564/how-do-i-get-asp-net-web-api-to-return-json-instead-of-xml-using-chrome
/// </remarks>
public class BrowserJsonFormatter : JsonMediaTypeFormatter
{
public BrowserJsonFormatter()
{
this.SupportedMediaTypes.Add(new MediaTypeHeaderValue("text/html"));
this.SerializerSettings.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
}
public override void SetDefaultContentHeaders(Type type, HttpContentHeaders headers, MediaTypeHeaderValue mediaType)
{
base.SetDefaultContentHeaders(type, headers, mediaType);
headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");
}
}
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