Requirement:
I am looking for a way to return an empty JSON object (such as {}
) when the return type of my ServiceStack service method is void
.
Reasoning:
The reason for wanting to return an empty JSON object for void
types is due to the way jQuery handles content type application/json
. As discussed here jQuery will throw an error when a 200 - OK
status is received with no content. Which is what is currently returned for void.
Foreseen issues:
I am hoping there is an easy way to serialise void
to {}
.
- If this is possible, would there be adverse consequences for doing this?
- Would it affect the ServiceStack c# client when it expects
void
?
I found the simple solution was to override the
OnAfterExecute
method in my custom ServiceStackServiceRunner
.If there is no response (because the method returned
void
) and theContentType
isapplication/json
then send an empty object.