Can I set an unlimited length for maxJsonLength in web.config?

Question

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

Answer 1

Just ran into this. I'm getting over 6,000 records. Just decided I'd just do some paging. As in, I accept a page number in my MVC JsonResult endpoint, which is defaulted to 0 so it's not necessary, like so:

public JsonResult MyObjects(int pageNumber = 0)

Then instead of saying:

return Json(_repository.MyObjects.ToList(), JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);

I say:

return Json(_repository.MyObjects.OrderBy(obj => obj.ID).Skip(1000 * pageNumber).Take(1000).ToList(), JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);

It's very simple. Then, in JavaScript, instead of this:

function myAJAXCallback(items) {
    // Do stuff here
}

I instead say:

var pageNumber = 0;
function myAJAXCallback(items) {
    if(items.length == 1000)
        // Call same endpoint but add this to the end: '?pageNumber=' + ++pageNumber
    }
    // Do stuff here
}

And append your records to whatever you were doing with them in the first place. Or just wait until all the calls finish and cobble the results together.