ASP.NET MVC JsonResult Date Format

Question

I have a controller action that effectively simply returns a JsonResult of my model. So, in my method I have something like the following:

return new JsonRes         


        

Answer 1

What worked for me was to create a viewmodel that contained the date property as a string. Assigning the DateTime property from the domain model and calling the .ToString() on the date property while assigning the value to the viewmodel.

A JSON result from an MVC action method will return the date in a format compatible with the view.

View Model

public class TransactionsViewModel
{
    public string DateInitiated { get; set; }
    public string DateCompleted { get; set; }
}

Domain Model

public class Transaction{
   public DateTime? DateInitiated {get; set;}
   public DateTime? DateCompleted {get; set;}
}

Controller Action Method

public JsonResult GetTransactions(){

var transactions = _transactionsRepository.All;
        var model = new List<TransactionsViewModel>();

        foreach (var transaction in transactions)
        {
            var item = new TransactionsViewModel
            {
                ...............
                DateInitiated = transaction.DateInitiated.ToString(),
                DateCompleted = transaction.DateCompleted.ToString(),
            };

            model.Add(item);
        }
        return Json(model, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}