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this opportunity Ii'd like to thank everyone who has an answer to this question, I'm trying to get a json from my web api service and I can't this is my code at the web api...
[ResponseType(typeof(List<CompanyType>))]
[Route("GetList")]
[DeflateCompression]
public async Task<IHttpActionResult> Get()
{
List<CompanyType> companyTypes = (List<CompanyType>)MemoryCacheManager.GetValue(#"CompanyTypes");
if (companyTypes != null) return Ok(companyTypes);
companyTypes = await _CompanyType.Queryable().ToListAsync();
if (companyTypes == null) return Ok(HttpStatusCode.NoContent);
MemoryCacheManager.Add(#"CompanyTypes", companyTypes);
return Ok(companyTypes);
}
and at the site of my client I got this
public async Task<T> GetAsync<T>(string action, string authToken = null)
{
using (var client = new HttpClient())
{
if (!authToken.IsNullOrWhiteSpace())
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = AuthenticationHeaderValue.Parse(#"Bearer " + authToken);
var result = await client.GetAsync(BuildActionUri(action));
string json = await result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
if (result.IsSuccessStatusCode)
return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>(json); //This line fails because the characters in the value
throw new ApiException(result.StatusCode, json);
}
}
As you can see there nothing than weird here it is a simple code that try to parse a json value to a Generic class but this fails bacause when i call my webapi Url it gives me this value
json = ��VR�LQ�R2T�Q�2u�B*R�"E�e�)�#q�������̔Ԣb%��Ҝ�Z�>#�>#�>�̊B������J�r2�q�
I don't know why my webapi give me tha value, when I try to debug just my service it give me this value
<ArrayOfCompanyType xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" ><CompanyType z:Id="i1" xmlns:z="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/"><Id>1</Id><Type>Privada</Type><JobProviders i:nil="true" /></CompanyType><CompanyType z:Id="i2" xmlns:z="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/"><Id>2</Id><Type>Mixta</Type><JobProviders i:nil="true" /></CompanyType><CompanyType z:Id="i3" xmlns:z="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/"><Id>3</Id><Type>Publica</Type><JobProviders i:nil="true" /></CompanyType></ArrayOfCompanyType>
as you can see everything looks fine but the problem start when I try to parse to get this value from my client.
this is my class
[DataContract(IsReference = true, Name = #"CompanyType", )]
public class CompanyType : Entity
{
[DataMember(Order = 0)]
public int Id { get; set; }
[DataMember(Order = 1)]
public string Type { get; set; }
[DataMember(Order = 2)]
public virtual List<JobProvider> JobProviders { get; set; }
}
I tried it without de DataContracts and still the same error.
best regards!.

Answer 1

Well I figured out, I was trying to use this sample http://blog.developers.ba/asp-net-web-api-gzip-compression-actionfilter/ but the thing was that the serializer wasn´t registered, so at my startup project I did this
GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.Formatters.Add(new ProtoBufFormatter());
And I changed my Actions deleting the attribute [DeflateCompression]
[ResponseType(typeof(List<CompanyType>))]
[Route("GetList")]
//[DeflateCompression]
public async Task<IHttpActionResult> Get()
{
Logic goes here....
}
And It's working now, but now I have another Issue and its when I try to make a call to my webapi action where I have to response an IHttpActionResult there is an exception of
no serializer defined for type: System.Object