how to convert string response to JSON response

Question

Here if the response is success I want to return JSON responseStr with status code System.Net.HttpStatusCode.Accepted. But using this code I am able to return string. But I want to return Json response.

public async Task<IActionResult> Receipt()
      {
            var response = await api.Get(string.Format(url));
            var responseStr = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
            if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
            {
                return StatusCode((int)System.Net.HttpStatusCode.Accepted, responseStr);               
            }
            else
            {
                _logger.LogError(responseStr);
                return BadRequest(responseStr);
            }
       }

Answer 1

Ordinarily a 202 / Accepted response wouldn't contain a body in the response.

But you can achieve this by either of the following:

return Accepted(responseStr);

Note that this will return the responseStr field as a string - because it is a string.

If you want to return it as a json object - you could deserialise it first and return the object in the same manner:

var asObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Type>(responseStr);
return Accepted (asObject);

Also, you should move the ReadAsStringAsync call to inside the if (Successful) {} block.