Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
Jayrock: JSON and JSON-RPC for .NET
Category: .NET
, JSON, JavaScript
Jayrock is a modest and an open source implementation of JSON and JSON-RPC for the Microsoft .NET Framework, including ASP.NET. What's so modest about it? Well, modest as in plain and basic and no work of genius.
A developer creates a helloworld.ashx that contains your server side logic:
C#:
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<%@ WebHandler Class="JayrockWeb.HelloWorld" %>
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namespace JayrockWeb
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{
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using System;
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using System.Web;
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using Jayrock.Json;
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using Jayrock.JsonRpc;
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using Jayrock.JsonRpc.Web;
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public class HelloWorld : JsonRpcHandler
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{
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[ JsonRpcMethod("greetings") ]
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public string Greetings()
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{
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return "Welcome to Jayrock!";
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}
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}
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}
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Then you can access the file asking for a proxy via helloworld.ashx?proxy and you will see a test page. From code you can now:
JAVASCRIPT:
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var s = new HelloWorld();
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alert("sync:" + s.greetings());
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s.greetings(function(response) {
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alert("async:" + response.result)
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});
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Nice and simple.
3.4 rating from 36 votes
Another possible library for use with .NET would be http://www.newtonsoft.com/products/json/
I’ve succesfully used it in a commercial site, and it’s easy to work with and produces quality results, once you get your head around only serializing the stuff the client needs, instead of serializing EVERYTHING.
http://json.org has lot’s of good info.
Neat.
Thanks.Good article
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