I am using the autocomplete feature of jQuery. When I try to retrieve the list of more then 17000 records (each won\'t have more than 10 char length), it\'s exceeding the le
I followed vestigal's answer and got to this solution:
When I needed to post a large json to an action in a controller, I would get the famous "Error during deserialization using the JSON JavaScriptSerializer. The length of the string exceeds the value set on the maxJsonLength property.\r\nParameter name: input value provider".
What I did is create a new ValueProviderFactory, LargeJsonValueProviderFactory, and set the MaxJsonLength = Int32.MaxValue in the GetDeserializedObject method
public sealed class LargeJsonValueProviderFactory : ValueProviderFactory
{
private static void AddToBackingStore(LargeJsonValueProviderFactory.EntryLimitedDictionary backingStore, string prefix, object value)
{
IDictionary dictionary = value as IDictionary;
if (dictionary != null)
{
foreach (KeyValuePair keyValuePair in (IEnumerable>) dictionary)
LargeJsonValueProviderFactory.AddToBackingStore(backingStore, LargeJsonValueProviderFactory.MakePropertyKey(prefix, keyValuePair.Key), keyValuePair.Value);
}
else
{
IList list = value as IList;
if (list != null)
{
for (int index = 0; index < list.Count; ++index)
LargeJsonValueProviderFactory.AddToBackingStore(backingStore, LargeJsonValueProviderFactory.MakeArrayKey(prefix, index), list[index]);
}
else
backingStore.Add(prefix, value);
}
}
private static object GetDeserializedObject(ControllerContext controllerContext)
{
if (!controllerContext.HttpContext.Request.ContentType.StartsWith("application/json", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
return (object) null;
string end = new StreamReader(controllerContext.HttpContext.Request.InputStream).ReadToEnd();
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(end))
return (object) null;
var serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer {MaxJsonLength = Int32.MaxValue};
return serializer.DeserializeObject(end);
}
/// Returns a JSON value-provider object for the specified controller context.
/// A JSON value-provider object for the specified controller context.
/// The controller context.
public override IValueProvider GetValueProvider(ControllerContext controllerContext)
{
if (controllerContext == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("controllerContext");
object deserializedObject = LargeJsonValueProviderFactory.GetDeserializedObject(controllerContext);
if (deserializedObject == null)
return (IValueProvider) null;
Dictionary dictionary = new Dictionary((IEqualityComparer) StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
LargeJsonValueProviderFactory.AddToBackingStore(new LargeJsonValueProviderFactory.EntryLimitedDictionary((IDictionary) dictionary), string.Empty, deserializedObject);
return (IValueProvider) new DictionaryValueProvider
Then, in the Application_Start method from Global.asax.cs, replace the ValueProviderFactory with the new one:
protected void Application_Start()
{
...
//Add LargeJsonValueProviderFactory
ValueProviderFactory jsonFactory = null;
foreach (var factory in ValueProviderFactories.Factories)
{
if (factory.GetType().FullName == "System.Web.Mvc.JsonValueProviderFactory")
{
jsonFactory = factory;
break;
}
}
if (jsonFactory != null)
{
ValueProviderFactories.Factories.Remove(jsonFactory);
}
var largeJsonValueProviderFactory = new LargeJsonValueProviderFactory();
ValueProviderFactories.Factories.Add(largeJsonValueProviderFactory);
}