Response for REST method was truncated because default MaxItemsInObjectGraph was not big enough.

We have a   REST service with attributes [WebGet(UriTemplate ="...", BodyStyle =WebMessageBodyStyle.Bare, ResponseFormat =WebMessageFormat.Xml)]

Normally it worked fine. But for particular data it has a huge response that was truncated. 

The size returned in a few attempts in IE browser was 2196456, in Chrome slightly different 2195397.

After a search in google I found http://forums.asp.net/post/4948029.aspx, that has a number of suggestions.

For WCF service that will transfer large amount of data in operations, here are the configuration settings you need to check:

1. the maxReceivedMessageSize attribute of the certain element(in your case, that's the webHttpbinding)

# 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb412176.aspx

2. The settings (under the elements) which has control over the maxarrayLength, maxStringLength ,etc...

# 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731325.aspx

3. The DataContractSerializer behavior which has a MaxItemsInObjectGraph property. You can configure it via ServiceBehavior of your WCF service

#DataContractSerializer.MaxItemsInObjectGraph Property 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.serialization.datacontractserializer.maxitemsinobjectgraph.aspx

4. And if your WCF service is hosted in ASP.NET/IIS web application, you also need to enlarge the "maxRequestLength" attribute of the element (under <system.web> section).

#httpRuntime Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema) 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e1f13641.aspx

 After a few attempts my collegue found that our problem was caused by

#DataContractSerializer.MaxItemsInObjectGraph Property 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.serialization.datacontractserializer.maxitemsinobjectgraph.aspx

<behavior name="MyOperationBehavior">

          < dataContractSerializer maxItemsInObjectGraph ="2196456" />

</behavior>