asp.net-web-api2

I get always null value from body why ? I have no problem with using fiddler but postman is fail. I have a web api like that: [Route("api/account/GetToken/")] [System.Web.Http.HttpPost] public HttpResponseBody GetToken([FromBody] string value) { string result = value; } My postman data: and header: WebAPI is working as expected because you're telling it that you're sending this json object: { "username":"admin", "password":"admin" } Then you're asking it to deserialize it as a string which is impossible since it's not a valid JSON string. Solution 1: If you want to receive the actual JSON as

Problem: I need to handle web api 2 exceptions and return a rich object with the correct status code (401 for Unauthorized, 404 for ContentNotFound, etc) and some extra information as the content. Moreover, I need the content to look like a serialized Exception object (have the message , exceptionMessage , stackTrace , ... properties). Suggested Solutions: Create custom exception classes and writing a custom exception filter to apply to any controller's action. this custom exception filters handles the exception thrown according to it's type (one of the custom exceptions that I've already

I'm attempting to unit test out OData controllers, however the APIs changed and previously recommended methods I tried do not work - currently I'm getting No non-OData HTTP route registered. when trying to instantiate ODataQueryOptions to be passed into the Get method of the controller My current code (based on answers like this one ): [TestMethod()] public void RankingTest() { var serviceMock = new Mock<IVendorService>(); serviceMock.SetReturnsDefault<IEnumerable<Vendor>>(new List<Vendor>() { new Vendor() { id = "1" } }); HttpRequestMessage request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get,

i want to upload my webapi to iis but i am getting the following error Config Source: 24: </modules> 25: <handlers> 26: <remove name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0" /> here is my webconfig file <handlers> <remove name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0" /> <remove name="OPTIONSVerbHandler" /> <remove name="TRACEVerbHandler" /> <add name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0" path="*." verb="*" type="System.Web.Handlers.TransferRequestHandler" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0" /> </handlers> i am using windows 8.1. i have installed all features of IIS. my

If you are in a controller context, you can access the current authenticated User. Take an article such as Get the current user, within an ApiController action, without passing the userID as a parameter . However, if my controller calls a service (same assembly), but here I don't have the controller context. What is the best way to actually get the authenticated user? You can create an intermediate service to provide that functionality public interface IPrincipalProvider { IPrincipal User { get; } } public class WebApiPrincipalProvider : IPrincipalProvider { public IPrincipal User { get {

Is there a way to unit test or debug a web api in one vs solution? I am consuming the WebAPI using HttpClient and have two instances of VS up to do this. in 1 VS instance I have the unit test, in the second vs instance I have the webapi running in localhost. Is there a better way to do this? Is the preferred way to unit test is to have a reference to the WebAPI project? I want to consume it using httpClient and not have to reference it in the UnitTest Project. so in my UnitTest method it would have a baseAddress of " http://localhost:1234 " this would be where the WebAPI if launched from the