posting a byte array

[mgroves]

I have an object that I want to post to a REST endpoint (I'm using WCF
if that matters) in Json format. The object has a number of
properties, but the Json serializer seems to choke on the one byte[]
property of the object (it throws an exception saying that it can't
convert it to a string).

As a workaround, I'm UTF8 encoding the byte array, making the property
a string, and posting it that way. Is there a better way?

[John Sheehan]

what would a serialized byte array in json look like on the wire?

i'm going to guess that you've found the best way already :)

[mgroves]

I don't know what it *should* look like, but, as a UTF8 string it
looks like:

{
"data": "QmFzZSA2NCBTdHJlYW0="
}

For a byte[] array, WCF seems to expect something like this:

{
"data":
[81,109,70,122,90,83,65,50,78,67,66,84,100,72,74,108,89,87,48,61]

[John Sheehan]

This is via RestRequest.AddBody(object) right? For JSON, this just
passes through to JSON.NET, so we need to figure how to get that to
handle it.

[mgroves]

Yes, I was either using AddBody or request.AddParameter("application/
json",....)

I think we're just going to use Base64 encoding/decoding, but now I
have a different issue: we keep getting an error "Could not load file
or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=3.5.0.0". We have
Newtonsoft.Json as a reference in the project, but it's version 4.0,
not 3.5. What am I doing wrong?

[John Sheehan]

That will be fixed in 100.4, coming out this weekend.

[John Sheehan]

Are you using NuGet?

[mgroves]

Yes, I'm using NuGet.

On Mar 18, 10:01 pm, John Sheehan <johnshee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you using NuGet?