Inconsistent treatment of quotes in JSON payload

Why is it possible to send in a WCF DataService the following JSON string:

{ SomeElement: 'val1', SomeOtherElement: 'val2' }

whilest you have to send in an normal WCF Service like

[OperationContract,
 WebInvoke (Method = "POST",
            ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json,
            RequestFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json,
            BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyl开发者_StackOverflow社区e.Wrapped)]
public string SomeMehtod(string SomeElement, string SomeOtherElement)

the following JSON string

{ "SomeElement": "val1", "SomeOtherElement": "val2" }

This inconsistency is not clear to me. Why do I have to use double quotes in the normal web serive whilest I can omit the quotes for the element name in WCF data services?

Maybe somone knows an answer to this....

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I am very familiar with the internal plumbing behind WCF's JSON parsing infrastructure, and essentially, the plumbing that takes care of the second situation is really designed to support "strict" standards-complaint JSON.

It's just a coincidence that the first situation works with non-compliant JSON. Don't read into it. It was not a conscious design decision. Hope this clears up confusion!

For more details, you can just explore DataContractJsonSerializerOperationFormatter, DataContractJsonSerializerOperationBehavior, and DataContractJsonSerializer using Reflector.