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What is the difference between JSONResult and ActionResult?

What is the difference between JSONResult and ActionResult?

Harikanth Kompally

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What is the difference between JSONResult and ActionResult?

can any one explain above the question

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Rajeesh Menoth9y ago
Accepted answer
Hi,

ActionResult

ActionResult is an abstract class that an action can return.

JsonResult

Use JsonResult when you want to return raw JSON data to be consumed by a client (javascript on a web page or a mobile client).

Reference :

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15250941/actionresult-vs-jsonresult
Milan Prajapati9y ago
ActionResult is an abstract class.
JsonResult is a subtype of ActionResult.

ActionResult is used when you want to return a view or file or even jsondata or redirect etc to be handled by a browser.
JsonResult is used when you want to return raw JSON data to be consumed by a client.

ActionResult is a basetype for several subtypes like JsonResult, ViewResult, PartialViewResult, RedirectResult, ContentResult.
For example :
public ActionResult GetData(int id)
{
     var data = .... // some data

     if (Request.AcceptTypes.Contains("json"))
          return Json(data);
     else
          return View(data);
}
JSONResult Serializes a given ViewData object into JSON format.

For example :
public JsonResult GetData(int id)
{
     var data = .... // some data
     return Json(data);
}
Mukesh Nayak9y ago
ActionResult is a base class and JsonResult is child class.
JsonResult inherits from ActionResult class.

Using JsonResult we can send data in json format from controller to view

Please check the image below: