how to post plain text to ASP.NET Web API endpoint?

Question

I have an ASP.NET Web API endpoint with controller action defined as follows :

[HttpPost]
public HttpResponseMessage Post([FromBody] object text)
         


        

Answer 1

Actually it's a shame that web API doesn't have a MediaTypeFormatter for plain text. Here is the one I implemented. It can also be used to Post content.

public class TextMediaTypeFormatter : MediaTypeFormatter
{
    public TextMediaTypeFormatter()
    {
        SupportedMediaTypes.Add(new MediaTypeHeaderValue("text/plain"));
    }

    public override Task