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

Very late to this party with a grossly simplified solution. I had success with this code in the controller method:

       public HttpResponseMessage FileHandler()
       {
        HttpResponseMessage response = new HttpResponseMessage();

        using (var reader = new StreamReader(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.GetBufferedInputStream()))
        {
            string plainText = reader.ReadToEnd();
        } .....}

And on the client side, these are the Ajax options I used:

var ajaxOptions = {
url: 'api/fileupload/' + "?" + $.param({ "key": metaKey2, "File-Operation": "Remove", "removalFilePath": $removalFilePath, "Audit-Model": model, "Parent-Id": $parentId, "Audit-Id": $auditId }),
type: 'POST', processData: false, contentType: false, data: "BOB"
};