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

In ASP.NET Core 2.0 you simply do the following :-

using (var reader = new StreamReader(Request.Body))
{
      string plainText= reader.ReadToEnd();

      // Do something else

      return Ok(plainText);
}