Usando JSON.NET como el serializador JSON predeterminado en ASP.NET MVC 3 - ¿es posible?

Implementé esto sin la necesidad de un controlador base o inyección.

Utilicé filtros de acción para reemplazar el JsonResult por un JsonNetResult.

public class JsonHandlerAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute
{
    public override void OnActionExecuted(ActionExecutedContext filterContext)
    {
       var jsonResult = filterContext.Result as JsonResult;

        if (jsonResult != null)
        {
            filterContext.Result = new JsonNetResult
            {
                ContentEncoding = jsonResult.ContentEncoding,
                ContentType = jsonResult.ContentType,
                Data = jsonResult.Data,
                JsonRequestBehavior = jsonResult.JsonRequestBehavior
            };
        }

        base.OnActionExecuted(filterContext);
    }
}

En el Mundo.asax.cs Application_Start() tendría que agregar:

GlobalFilters.Filters.Add(new JsonHandlerAttribute());

Por el bien de la finalización, aquí está mi clase de extensión JsonNetResult que recogí de otro lugar y que modificé ligeramente para obtener el soporte de vapor correcto:

public class JsonNetResult : JsonResult
{
    public JsonNetResult()
    {
        Settings = new JsonSerializerSettings
        {
            ReferenceLoopHandling = ReferenceLoopHandling.Error
        };
    }

    public JsonSerializerSettings Settings { get; private set; }

    public override void ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context)
    {
        if (context == null)
            throw new ArgumentNullException("context");
        if (this.JsonRequestBehavior == JsonRequestBehavior.DenyGet && string.Equals(context.HttpContext.Request.HttpMethod, "GET", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
            throw new InvalidOperationException("JSON GET is not allowed");

        HttpResponseBase response = context.HttpContext.Response;
        response.ContentType = string.IsNullOrEmpty(this.ContentType) ? "application/json" : this.ContentType;

        if (this.ContentEncoding != null)
            response.ContentEncoding = this.ContentEncoding;
        if (this.Data == null)
            return;

        var scriptSerializer = JsonSerializer.Create(this.Settings);
        scriptSerializer.Serialize(response.Output, this.Data);
    }
}

Utilice el convertidor JSON de Newtonsoft:

public ActionResult DoSomething()
{
    dynamic cResponse = new ExpandoObject();
    cResponse.Property1 = "value1";
    cResponse.Property2 = "value2";
    return Content(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(cResponse));
}

Sé que esto es mucho después de que la pregunta haya sido respondida, pero estoy usando un enfoque diferente ya que estoy usando la inyección de dependencias para crear instancias de mis controladores.

He reemplazado el IActionInvoker ( inyectando la propiedad ControllerActionInvoker del controlador ) con una versión que anula el método InvokeActionMethod.

Esto significa que no hay cambio en la herencia del controlador y se puede eliminar fácilmente cuando actualizo a MVC4 alterando el registro del contenedor DI para TODOS los controladores

public class JsonNetActionInvoker : ControllerActionInvoker
{
    protected override ActionResult InvokeActionMethod(ControllerContext controllerContext, ActionDescriptor actionDescriptor, IDictionary<string, object> parameters)
    {
        ActionResult invokeActionMethod = base.InvokeActionMethod(controllerContext, actionDescriptor, parameters);

        if ( invokeActionMethod.GetType() == typeof(JsonResult) )
        {
            return new JsonNetResult(invokeActionMethod as JsonResult);
        }

        return invokeActionMethod;
    }

    private class JsonNetResult : JsonResult
    {
        public JsonNetResult()
        {
            this.ContentType = "application/json";
        }

        public JsonNetResult( JsonResult existing )
        {
            this.ContentEncoding = existing.ContentEncoding;
            this.ContentType = !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(existing.ContentType) ? existing.ContentType : "application/json";
            this.Data = existing.Data;
            this.JsonRequestBehavior = existing.JsonRequestBehavior;
        }

        public override void ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context)
        {
            if (context == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException("context");
            }
            if ((this.JsonRequestBehavior == JsonRequestBehavior.DenyGet) && string.Equals(context.HttpContext.Request.HttpMethod, "GET", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
            {
                base.ExecuteResult(context);                            // Delegate back to allow the default exception to be thrown
            }

            HttpResponseBase response = context.HttpContext.Response;
            response.ContentType = this.ContentType;

            if (this.ContentEncoding != null)
            {
                response.ContentEncoding = this.ContentEncoding;
            }

            if (this.Data != null)
            {
                // Replace with your favourite serializer.  
                new Newtonsoft.Json.JsonSerializer().Serialize( response.Output, this.Data );
            }
        }
    }
}

- - - EDIT - Actualizado para mostrar el registro del contenedor para los controladores. Estoy usando Unity aquí.

private void RegisterAllControllers(List<Type> exportedTypes)
{
    this.rootContainer.RegisterType<IActionInvoker, JsonNetActionInvoker>();
    Func<Type, bool> isIController = typeof(IController).IsAssignableFrom;
    Func<Type, bool> isIHttpController = typeof(IHttpController).IsAssignableFrom;

    foreach (Type controllerType in exportedTypes.Where(isIController))
    {
        this.rootContainer.RegisterType(
            typeof(IController),
            controllerType, 
            controllerType.Name.Replace("Controller", string.Empty),
            new InjectionProperty("ActionInvoker")
        );
    }

    foreach (Type controllerType in exportedTypes.Where(isIHttpController))
    {
        this.rootContainer.RegisterType(typeof(IHttpController), controllerType, controllerType.Name);
    }
}

public class UnityControllerFactory : System.Web.Mvc.IControllerFactory, System.Web.Http.Dispatcher.IHttpControllerActivator
{
    readonly IUnityContainer container;

    public UnityControllerFactory(IUnityContainer container)
    {
        this.container = container;
    }

    IController System.Web.Mvc.IControllerFactory.CreateController(System.Web.Routing.RequestContext requestContext, string controllerName)
    {
        return this.container.Resolve<IController>(controllerName);
    }

    SessionStateBehavior System.Web.Mvc.IControllerFactory.GetControllerSessionBehavior(RequestContext requestContext, string controllerName)
    {
        return SessionStateBehavior.Required;
    }

    void System.Web.Mvc.IControllerFactory.ReleaseController(IController controller)
    {
    }

    IHttpController IHttpControllerActivator.Create(HttpRequestMessage request, HttpControllerDescriptor controllerDescriptor, Type controllerType)
    {
        return this.container.Resolve<IHttpController>(controllerType.Name);
    }
}

Ampliando la respuesta de https://stackoverflow.com/users/183056/sami-beyoglu, si establece el tipo de contenido, jQuery podrá convertir los datos devueltos en un objeto para usted.

public ActionResult DoSomething()
{
    dynamic cResponse = new ExpandoObject();
    cResponse.Property1 = "value1";
    cResponse.Property2 = "value2";
    return Content(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(cResponse), "application/json");
}

Hice una versión que hace que las acciones del servicio web sean seguras y simples. Se usa así:

public JsonResult<MyDataContract> MyAction()
{
    return new MyDataContract();
}

La clase:

public class JsonResult<T> : JsonResult
{
    public JsonResult(T data)
    {
        Data = data;
        JsonRequestBehavior = JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet;
    }

    public override void ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context)
    {
        // Use Json.Net rather than the default JavaScriptSerializer because it's faster and better

        if (context == null)
            throw new ArgumentNullException("context");

        var response = context.HttpContext.Response;

        response.ContentType = !String.IsNullOrEmpty(ContentType)
            ? ContentType
            : "application/json";

        if (ContentEncoding != null)
            response.ContentEncoding = ContentEncoding;

        var serializedObject = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(Data, Formatting.Indented);
        response.Write(serializedObject);
    }

    public static implicit operator JsonResult<T>(T d)
    {
        return new JsonResult<T>(d);
    }
}

Mi Post puede ayudar a alguien.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
namespace MultipleSubmit.Service
{
    public abstract class BaseController : Controller
    {
        protected override JsonResult Json(object data, string contentType,
            Encoding contentEncoding, JsonRequestBehavior behavior)
        {
            return new JsonNetResult
            {
                Data = data,
                ContentType = contentType,
                ContentEncoding = contentEncoding,
                JsonRequestBehavior = behavior
            };
        }
    }
}


using Newtonsoft.Json;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
namespace MultipleSubmit.Service
{
    public class JsonNetResult : JsonResult
    {
        public JsonNetResult()
        {
            Settings = new JsonSerializerSettings
            {
                ReferenceLoopHandling = ReferenceLoopHandling.Error
            };
        }
        public JsonSerializerSettings Settings { get; private set; }
        public override void ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context)
        {
            if (context == null)
                throw new ArgumentNullException("context");
            if (this.JsonRequestBehavior == JsonRequestBehavior.DenyGet && string.Equals
(context.HttpContext.Request.HttpMethod, "GET", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                throw new InvalidOperationException("JSON GET is not allowed");
            HttpResponseBase response = context.HttpContext.Response;
            response.ContentType = string.IsNullOrEmpty(this.ContentType) ? 
"application/json" : this.ContentType;
            if (this.ContentEncoding != null)
                response.ContentEncoding = this.ContentEncoding;
            if (this.Data == null)
                return;
            var scriptSerializer = JsonSerializer.Create(this.Settings);
            using (var sw = new StringWriter())
            {
                scriptSerializer.Serialize(sw, this.Data);
                response.Write(sw.ToString());
            }
        }
    }
} 

public class MultipleSubmitController : BaseController
{
   public JsonResult Index()
    {
      var data = obj1;  // obj1 contains the Json data
      return Json(data, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
    }
}