Pass multiple complex objects to a post/put Web API method

Question

Can some please help me to know how to pass multiple objects from a C# console app to Web API controller as shown below?

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Answer 1

Basically you can send complex object without doing any extra fancy thing. Or without making changes to Web-Api. I mean why would we have to make changes to Web-Api, while the fault is in our code that's calling the Web-Api.

All you have to do use NewtonSoft's Json library as following.

string jsonObjectA = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(objectA);
string jsonObjectB = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(objectB);
string jSoNToPost = string.Format("\"content\": {0},\"config\":\"{1}\"",jsonObjectA , jsonObjectB );
//wrap it around in object container notation
jSoNToPost = string.Concat("{", jSoNToPost , "}"); 
//convert it to JSON acceptible content
HttpContent content = new StringContent(jSoNToPost , Encoding.UTF8, "application/json"); 

var response = httpClient.PutAsync("api/process/StartProcessiong", content);