How to return complex object containing list of byte array from restful service in JSON format c#

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I am returning my object from restful service in Json format i.e 'ResponseFormat=WebMessageFormat.Json'.
Object has child properties and one of them is list of byte[](byte array), however i am successfully getting my object from service but not able to get byte array list.
if i am returning only one byte array i am successfully getting it but not the list.
Can anybody tell me what is required setting to return an Object having child property of type byte array list.

Posted 13-Jul-15 1:38am

umumbai07

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Mehdi Gholam · Answer 1 · 2015-07-13T01:49:00

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byte[] is not a standard data type for json, different serializer may handle/interpret it in different ways.

My fastJSON[^] library converts it to a base64 string.

Posted 13-Jul-15 1:49am

Mehdi Gholam

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umumbai07 13-Jul-15 8:00am

Can you explain this with example?

Mehdi Gholam 13-Jul-15 8:06am

Add the following line :

string str = fastJSON.JSON.ToJSON(yourobjecthere);