Web Api get complex type

I have written a small ApiController service in C#, which has a "get" method:

[AcceptVerbs("GET")]

public Product GetProduct(Guid id)

If I call this directly in a browser, eg "http://myserver/api/v1/GetProduct/9cfbf113-30a2-4189-b4a8-53fdecca1f81", then I see a result like I'd expect.

But how do I call this endpoint from a c# application? I get an error like: "no MediaTypeFormatter is available to read an object of type Product from content with media type 'text/javascript'".

My code:

var client2 = new HttpClient();

client2.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://myserver");

var resp2 = client2.GetAsync("api/v1/GetProduct/9cfbf113-30a2-4189-b4a8-53fdecca1f81").Result;

Product responsePD2 = null;

if (resp2.IsSuccessStatusCode)

{

responsePD2 = resp2.Content.ReadAsAsync().Result;

}

else

{

}

How do I convert the returned result to a Product type?

Thanks.

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Peter12y ago
I found one way of doing it....

Stream s = resp2.Content.ReadAsStreamAsync().Result;
JavaScriptSerializer jss = new JavaScriptSerializer();
string str = null;
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
{
s.CopyTo(ms);
ms.Position = 0;
var b = ms.ToArray();
str = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(b);
}

Product p = jss.Deserialize(str);