MVC controller : get JSON object from HTTP body?

Question

We have an MVC (MVC4) application which at times might get a JSON events POSTed from a 3rd party to our specific URL (\"http://server.com/events/\"). The JSON event is in th

Answer 1

I've been trying to get my ASP.NET MVC controller to parse some model that i submitted to it using Postman.

I needed the following to get it to work:

• controller action

  [HttpPost]
  [PermitAllUsers]
  [Route("Models")]
  public JsonResult InsertOrUpdateModels(Model entities)
  {
      // ...
      return Json(response, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
  }
  

• a Models class

  public class Model
  {
      public string Test { get; set; }
      // ...
  }
  

• headers for Postman's request, specifically, Content-Type

• json in the request body