asp.net webapi 2 post parameter is always null

Question

I have been trying to figure this our for the last hour, but I can\'t see what\'s wrong with it

the post is from a xamarin app that I\'m writing, using restsharp portabl

Answer 1

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in short, when sending simple values which are to be picked up using [frombody] attribute on the server side, you have to prefix the value with = e.g. =testValue

but its probably better just to use JSON Objects and object bindings on the API, even for simple values