如果你在WebApiConfig中这样做，默认情况下你会得到JSON，但是如果你传递text/ XML作为请求Accept头，它仍然允许你返回XML。

注意:这删除了对application/xml的支持

public static class WebApiConfig
{
    public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
    {
        config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
            name: "DefaultApi",
            routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
            defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
        );

        var appXmlType = config.Formatters.XmlFormatter.SupportedMediaTypes.FirstOrDefault(t => t.MediaType == "application/xml");
        config.Formatters.XmlFormatter.SupportedMediaTypes.Remove(appXmlType);
    }
}

如果你不使用MVC项目类型，因此没有这个类开始，请参阅这个答案关于如何合并它的详细信息。

I like Felipe Leusin's approach best - make sure browsers get JSON without compromising content negotiation from clients that actually want XML. The only missing piece for me was that the response headers still contained content-type: text/html. Why was that a problem? Because I use the JSON Formatter Chrome extension, which inspects content-type, and I don't get the pretty formatting I'm used to. I fixed that with a simple custom formatter that accepts text/html requests and returns application/json responses:

public class BrowserJsonFormatter : JsonMediaTypeFormatter
{
    public BrowserJsonFormatter() {
        this.SupportedMediaTypes.Add(new MediaTypeHeaderValue("text/html"));
        this.SerializerSettings.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
    }

    public override void SetDefaultContentHeaders(Type type, HttpContentHeaders headers, MediaTypeHeaderValue mediaType) {
        base.SetDefaultContentHeaders(type, headers, mediaType);
        headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");
    }
}

像这样注册:

config.Formatters.Add(new BrowserJsonFormatter());

config.Formatters.Remove(config.Formatters.XmlFormatter);

当User-Agent头包含“Chrome”时，我使用全局动作过滤器删除Accept: application/xml:

internal class RemoveXmlForGoogleChromeFilter : IActionFilter
{
    public bool AllowMultiple
    {
        get { return false; }
    }

    public async Task<HttpResponseMessage> ExecuteActionFilterAsync(
        HttpActionContext actionContext,
        CancellationToken cancellationToken,
        Func<Task<HttpResponseMessage>> continuation)
    {
        var userAgent = actionContext.Request.Headers.UserAgent.ToString();
        if (userAgent.Contains("Chrome"))
        {
            var acceptHeaders = actionContext.Request.Headers.Accept;
            var header =
                acceptHeaders.SingleOrDefault(
                    x => x.MediaType.Contains("application/xml"));
            acceptHeaders.Remove(header);
        }

        return await continuation();
    }
}

似乎有用。

从这个问题被问到(和回答)已经过去了一段时间，但是另一个选择是在请求处理过程中使用MessageHandler覆盖服务器上的Accept头，如下所示:

public class ForceableContentTypeDelegationHandler : DelegatingHandler
{
    protected async override Task<HttpResponseMessage> SendAsync(
                HttpRequestMessage request,
                CancellationToken cancellationToken)
    {
        var someOtherCondition = false;
        var accHeader = request.Headers.GetValues("Accept").FirstOrDefault();
        if (someOtherCondition && accHeader.Contains("application/xml"))
        {
            request.Headers.Remove("Accept");
            request.Headers.Add("Accept", "application/json");
        }
        return await base.SendAsync(request, cancellationToken);
    }
}

其中someOtherCondition可以是任何东西，包括浏览器类型等。这将用于有条件的情况，即有时我们只想覆盖默认的内容协商。否则，根据其他答案，您只需从配置中删除一个不必要的格式化程序。

当然你需要注册。你可以全局执行:

  public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config) {
      config.MessageHandlers.Add(new ForceableContentTypeDelegationHandler());
  }

或按路线划分:

config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
   name: "SpecialContentRoute",
   routeTemplate: "api/someUrlThatNeedsSpecialTreatment/{id}",
   defaults: new { controller = "SpecialTreatment" id = RouteParameter.Optional },
   constraints: null,
   handler: new ForceableContentTypeDelegationHandler()
);

由于这是一个消息处理程序，它将运行在管道的请求端和响应端，就像HttpModule一样。所以你可以很容易地用一个自定义头来确认覆盖:

public class ForceableContentTypeDelegationHandler : DelegatingHandler
{
    protected async override Task<HttpResponseMessage> SendAsync(
                HttpRequestMessage request,
                CancellationToken cancellationToken)
    {
        var wasForced = false;
        var someOtherCondition = false;
        var accHeader = request.Headers.GetValues("Accept").FirstOrDefault();
        if (someOtherCondition && accHeader.Contains("application/xml"))
        {
            request.Headers.Remove("Accept");
            request.Headers.Add("Accept", "application/json");
            wasForced = true;
        }

        var response =  await base.SendAsync(request, cancellationToken);
        if (wasForced){
          response.Headers.Add("X-ForcedContent", "We overrode your content prefs, sorry");
        }
        return response;
    }
}

一个快速的选择是使用MediaTypeMapping专门化。下面是一个在Application_Start事件中使用QueryStringMapping的例子:

GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.Formatters.JsonFormatter.MediaTypeMappings.Add(new QueryStringMapping("a", "b", "application/json"));

现在，只要url包含querystring(在这种情况下，a=b)， Json响应就会显示在浏览器中。