RESTful Web Services return value

[marco.rossi]

Hi all,


I'm getting error with RESTful by returning an object with more than 1 property.

ex:

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var _obj = new Object()
     _obj.id = 1
return _obj

works fine, into the response body I get an xml with a key "ID" and a value "1".

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var _obj = new Object()
     _obj.id = 1
     _obj.myName = "Marco"
return _obj

Gives the error shown within the picture attached.

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Am I missing something?

Regards

Marco

[Ruben79]

Your browser is complaining because the result isn't valid xml, because there is no root element.
The xml will be something like <id>1</id><myName>Marco</myName> if you check the page source.

To have a valid xml, wrap your result in a single node, like this:

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var _obj = new Object()
_obj.result = new Object()
_obj.result.id = 1
_obj.result.myName = "Marco"
return _obj

Another tip is to use a more declaritive approach using this literal notation as example:

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var id = 1;
var myName = 'Marco';

var result = {
   result: {
      id: id, myName: myName
   }
}
   
return result;