How to serialize C # DateTime as Javascript date using web API

Question

In MVC, you can do something like this:

public ActionResult Index()
{
    return Json(new List<DateTime> { DateTime.Parse("19/02/2017") }, 
                JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}

And a value is returned ["\/Date(1487458800000)\/"]

which is a Javascript Date object.

However, using WebAPI do the following:

public IEnumerable<DateTime> Get()
{
    return new List<DateTime> { DateTime.Parse("19/02/2017") };
}

Return value <dateTime>2017-02-19T00:00:00</dateTime>

Is there any way to serialize DateTime as Javascript Date object using WebApi?

+3

Daniel Marín 09 June '17 at 11:00

2 answers

Anderson pimentel · Answer 1 · 2017-06-09T11:17:46+0000

If you change the title Accept

as per your request to application/json

, you get:

["2017-06-09T08:14:13.7729697-03:00"]

Try it with a tool like Postman .

In angular, you can do something like:

var config = { headers:  {
        'Accept': 'application/json',
    }
};

$http.get("/api/values", config);

Kyle meenehan · Answer 2 · 2017-06-09T11:19:38+0000

You can use this format with JavaScript:

var myDate = new Date("2017-02-19T00:00:00");