How to get POST data in WebAPI?

Question

I\'m sending a request to server in the following form:

http://localhost:12345/api/controller/par1/par2

The request is correctly resolved t

Answer 1

I had a problem with sending a request with multiple parameters.

I've solved it by sending a class, with the old parameters as properties.

<form action="http://localhost:12345/api/controller/method" method="post">
    <input type="hidden" name="name1" value="value1" />
    <input type="hidden" name="name2" value="value2" />
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

Model class:

public class Model {
    public string Name1 { get; set; }
    public string Name2 { get; set; }
}

Controller:

public void method(Model m) {
    string name = m.Name1;
}

Answer 2

It is hard to handle multiple parameters on the action directly. The better way to do it is to create a view model class. Then you have a single parameter but the parameter contains multiple data properties.

public class MyParameters
{
    public string a { get; set; } 
    public string b { get; set; }
}

public MyController : ApiController
{
    public HttpResponseMessage Get([FromUri] MyParameters parameters) { ... }
}

Then you go to:

http://localhost:12345/api/MyController?a=par1&b=par2

Reference: http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/formats-and-model-binding/parameter-binding-in-aspnet-web-api

If you want to use "/par1/par2", you can register an asp routing rule. eg routeTemplate: "API/{controller}/{action}/{a}/{b}".

See http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/web-api-routing-and-actions/routing-in-aspnet-web-api