ASP.NET web api cannot get application/x-www-form-urlencoded HTTP POST

Question

I\'m new to web-api. I want to receive a HTTP POST data using web-api. The content-type is application/x-www-form-urlencoded, and the request body is like:

Answer 1

This post is old, but I stumbled on it while searching for answer. I'll post how I got mine to work, maybe someone will find it useful.

Here's the request:

POST /api/values HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:62798
Accept: text/json
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Cache-Control: no-cache
Postman-Token: 51ee1c5f-acbb-335b-35d9-d2b8e62abc74

UID=200&EMAIL=john%40jones.com&FIRST_NAME=John&LAST_NAME=jones&PHONE=433-394-3324&CITY=Seattle&STATE_CODE=WA&ZIP=98105

Here's the Model:

public class SampleModel{
    public string UID { get; set; }

    public string Email { get; set; }

    public string First_Name { get; set; }

    public string Last_Name { get; set; }

    public string Phone { get; set; }

    public string City { get; set; }

    public string State_Code { get; set; }

    public string Zip { get; set; }
}

And here's the POST method that automagically(FromBody) converts urlencoded values to the model.

public HttpResponseMessage Post([FromBody] SampleModel value){

I was able to pick out any value i.e.

    SearchCity(value.City);
    SearchName(value.Last_Name);