Using a C# 7 tuple in an ASP.NET Core Web API Controller

Question

Do you know why this works:

    public struct UserNameAndPassword
    {
        public string username;
        public string password;
    }


    [HttpPost         


        

Answer 1

You can use this package. This package binds json body to your models.

Github Repo

Installation

//Nuget
Install-Package M6T.Core.TupleModelBinder -Version 1.0.0

//dotnet cli
dotnet add package M6T.Core.TupleModelBinder --version 1.0.0

Usage

Modify startup.cs like

using M6T.Core.TupleModelBinder;
....

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
  services.AddMvc(options =>
  {
      options.ModelBinderProviders.Insert(0, new TupleModelBinderProvider());
  });
}

Post request body

{
  "user" : {
    "Name":"Test",
    "Surname":"Test2",
    "Email":"example@example.com"
  },
  "someData" : "If you like it, you put a data on it"
}

And in your controller use it like

[HttpPost]
public IActionResult CreateUser((User user, string someData) request)
{
    using (var db = new DBContext())
    {
        var newUser = db.Users.Add(request.user);
        db.SaveChanges();
        return Json(new { userId = request.user.Id, someData = request.someData});
    }
}