A circular reference was detected while serializing an object of type System.Globalization.CultureInfo
Solution 1
I changed my webmethod to return
ds.GetXml();
and this worked. Considering datasets are serializeable I'm not sure why I have to do this, but it gets me over this hurdle.
Solution 2
I had the exact same problem,
I removed Virtual keyword from my Entities which make lazy loading of object.
The problem solved!!
Solution 3
this will often happen when serializing objects with entityrefs and entitysets. e.g if you have a set like this
public EntitySet<ProductCategory> Subcategories
the serializer will go into the ProductCategory
and try to serialize all sets there aswell, often ending up back on the original object, and therefore creating a loop.
The best way to avoid this is to put [ScriptIgnore]
and [NonSerialized]
on fields and [ScriptIgnore]
on properties like this.
[ScriptIgnore]
[NonSerialized]
private EntitySet < ProductCategory > _Subcategories;
[ScriptIgnore]
[Association(Storage = "_Subcategories", ThisKey = "ID", OtherKey = "ParentID")]
public EntitySet < ProductCategory > Subcategories {
get {
return this._Subcategories;
}
set {
this._Subcategories.Assign(value);
}
}
Same on Refs
user48408
Updated on December 21, 2020Comments
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user48408 over 3 years
I'm using jquery to call a webservice which returns a dataset with a couple of tables in it.
This was working ok until i needed to set up my webmethod to accept a parameter. I reflected this on the client side with
data: "{paramname:'" + paramval+ "'}",
I now get the following error when the webmethod returns. This happens regardless of whats being returned in the dataset
Error:{"Message":"A circular reference was detected while serializing an object of type \u0027System.Globalization.CultureInfo\u0027.","StackTrace":" at System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer.SerializeValueInternal(Object o, StringBuilder sb, Int32 depth, Hashtable objectsInUse, SerializationFormat serializationFormat)\r\n at ...etc
When the webmethod has no parameters the client side js looks the same as below except the data: line is removed.
function ClientWebService(paramval){ $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "WebService1.asmx/webmethodName", data: "{paramname:'" + paramval+ "'}", contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8", dataType: "json", success: function(msg) { ParseResult(msg.d); }, error: function(err) { if (err.status == 200) { ParseResult(err); } else { alert('Error:' + err.responseText + ' Status: ' + err.status); } } });
}
Edit: As per suggestion to change the request to
data: {paramname: paramval},
yields the following error.
Error:{"Message":"Invalid JSON primitive: paramval.","StackTrace":"
at System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptObjectDeserializer.DeserializePrimitiveObject()\r\n at System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptObjectDeserializer.DeserializeInternal(Int32 depth)\r\n at System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptObjectDeserializer.BasicDeserialize(String input, Int32 depthLimit, JavaScriptSerializer serializer)\r\n at System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer.Deserialize(JavaScriptSerializer serializer, String input, Type type, Int32 depthLimit)\r\n at System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer.Deserialize[T](String input)\r\n at System.Web.Script.Services.RestHandler.GetRawParamsFromPostRequest(HttpContext context, JavaScriptSerializer serializer)\r\n at System.Web.Script.Services.RestHandler.GetRawParams(WebServiceMethodData methodData, HttpContext context)\r\n at System.Web.Script.Services.RestHandler.ExecuteWebServiceCall(HttpContext context, WebServiceMethodData methodData)","ExceptionType":"System.ArgumentException"} Status: 500 -
Pomster over 10 yearsPlease could you explain more on how you changed you webmethod?