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I have this code in C# mvc Controller: 

[HttpPost]
    public ActionResult Delete(string runId)
    {
        if (runId == "" || runId == null)
        {
            return this.Json(new { error = "Null or empty params" });
        }
        try
        {
            int userId = (int)Session["UserId"];
            int run = Convert.ToInt32(runId);

            CloudMgr cloud = new CloudMgr(Session);
            cloud.DeleteRun(userId, run);

            return this.Json(new { success = true });
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            return this.Json(new { error = ex.ToString() });
        }
    }

How I can access my Json "error" field in a ControllerTest to check if it is null or not? 

[TestMethod]
    public void DeleteWrongParam()
    {
        WhatIfController controller = new WhatIfController();
        controller.ControllerContext = 
        TestUtils.CreateMockSessionControllerContext().Object as ControllerContext;

        JsonResult result = controller.DeleteWhatIf(null) as JsonResult;

Assert.IsNotNull(result.Data.error); is what I would like to do. Any Ideas? Thanks.

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you can use like this , Result will be expected object definition . So in case od success , your success flag will be TRUE otherwise false and if false then you should expect that error property is updated with the error message.

        JsonResult jsonResult = oemController.List() as JsonResult;
        JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
        Result result = serializer.Deserialize<Result>(serializer.Serialize(jsonResult.Data));

        public class Result 
        {
            public bool success ;
            public string error;
        }
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What is the namespace for Result class? Thanks. –  juanchoelx Jun 21 '13 at 10:13
    
@juanchoelx Result is your own defined class like this class Result { public bool success ; public string error } –  Devesh Jun 21 '13 at 10:35
    
@juanchoelx I updated my code in my answer. –  Devesh Jun 21 '13 at 10:40
    
With this solution you need as many "Result" classes as different JSon results you have. If you build a new Action which returns two integers instead of success/error fields, you need to build a new class. –  J punto Marcos Jun 21 '13 at 11:26
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JavaScriptSerializer is good for string and static type. Here you created anonymous type as Json(new { success = true }). This case, you had better used dynamic type. 

JsonResult result = controller.DeleteWhatIf(null) as JsonResult;
dynamic dresult = result.Data;
Assert.IsTrue(dresult.succes);

You need to import Microsoft.CSharp dll to test project. If test and your controller are different assembly, you need to make friend assembly from controller assembly.

[assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("testproject assembly name")]

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+1 for the InternalsVisibleTo tip. I tried doing this without having that assembly attribute it place and couldn't figure out why it was blowing up at first. –  Landon Poch Feb 28 at 17:30
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