How to get hold of Content that is already read

Question

I have a class that inherits from ApiController. It has a Put-method like this:

[PUT(\"user/{UserId}\")]
public HttpResponseMessage Put(string userId, Payme         


        

Answer 1

A very delayed response, but recently I have had the same challenge to overcome.

I have approached that a bit different without having to get the data from the httpContext (can be quite costly for high volume transaction web application).

I created a simple interface and made each Controller implementing it:

public interface IBaseControllerData
{
    object Entity { get; set; }
}

I have then set the Controller's Entity property to the Json payload for each post and put action. Finally, I retrieved the Entity data within the ActionFilterAttribute.OnActionExecuted overridden method and serialised it to Json before injecting into MongoDB:

object entity = ((IBaseControllerData)actionExecutedContext.ActionContext.ControllerContext.Controller).Entity;
                    requestBody = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(entity);

Hope that helps !

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