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josephj1989
josephj1989

Reputation: 9709

Web Api MVC binding FormDataCollection

I have a Jquery Ajax call more or like below

 $.ajax(url, {
         type: httpMethod,
         contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
         data: '{name:"abc",age:23,address:"29 judd ce"}',

The web api action is 

  public HttpResponseMessage Post([FromBody] FormDataCollection data)
        {

However the parameter 'data' is always null.

Is this a web api limitation or am i doing it the wrong way

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2255

Answers (2)

Anton
Anton

Reputation: 731

it's possible 

 $.ajax("http://localhost:57281/api/Values", {
                    type: "POST",
                    data: '{name:"abc",age:23,address:"29 judd ce"}',
                    contentType: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
                });



//POST api/values
public void Post([FromBody]FormDataCollection value)
{

}

Also works without [FromBody] But you will get only ONE pair of key/value

Better use something like that

  $.ajax("http://localhost:57281/api/Values", {
                    type: "POST",
                    data: 'name=abc&age=23&address=29 judd ce',
                    contentType: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
                });

& is used as a separator for each pair

Upvotes: 0

Darin Dimitrov
Darin Dimitrov

Reputation: 1039060

Use a view model instead:

public class UserViewModel
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int Age { get; set; }
    public string Address { get; set; }
}

that your controller action will take:

public HttpResponseMessage Post(UserViewModel model)
{
    ...
}

Upvotes: 1

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