AJAX & Web Api Post Method - How does it work?

Question

I am trying to write to my database using AJAX / Jquery and c#. Whenever I pass the parameter in to the C# code it shows as null. I am using the default template that visual

Answer 1

Binding in API controllers is a little on the strange side. I believe:

public void Post([FromBody]RecipeInformation information)

with

var dataJSON = { name: "test" };

should work, and will definitely work if you just pass it as form data.