JSON output in Umbraco 5 - json

Question

I just switched from Umbraco 4 to Umbraco 5 and it seems like a lot has changed.
So what i basically want is a possibility to add a alternative template to my document-types.
The fall back template shall return the content as JSON.
Why, you say? I want to create an API-like way of accessing the Umbraco data from my mobile devices.
WebAPI (http://cultiv.nl/blog/2012/4/22/exposing-umbraco-5-content-through-the-aspnet-web-api/)
I have thought about using WebAPI from asp.net MVC 4, but the project is really just a proof of concept and i don't want to code each endpoint.
So i found a som guys that did a package for Umbraco 4 that actually does this and renders the content of #currentPage as Json. The template is hit by adding "/JSON" to the end of the url. Unfortunetly this uses xslt, which ihas been removed from Ubraco 5.1 (Good thing).
So. I bet it's simple to create a partial, a macro or a partial macro that does this and add it to a template. But is just cant figure out where to start.
Any help with that? What I'm looking for is a step guide on what steps to take, to make the setup. Rendering the stuff ad json in C# i can handle.
It's the integration into Umbraci I lack.
Hoe u can help.

Answer 1

The alternative templating works exactly like in v4: Just add the name of the template at the end of the url: yoururl/json
Then add a new razor view to the templates named "json" with the following code:
#inherits RenderViewPage
#using System.Web.Mvc.Html;
#using Umbraco.Cms.Web;
#{
Layout = "";
}
{
#foreach (var attribute in Model.Attributes)
{
string.Format("\"{0}\": \"{1}\"", attribute.AttributeDefinition.Alias, attribute.DynamicValue);
}
}
This code can be used as a starting point without using the web api or own controllers.
Don't forget to allow the tempplate on all document types
hth,
Thomas