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Shaiju T
Shaiju T

Reputation: 6609

how to read form/data value in web api

I am trying to POST Json data to API and read the value from the key using the HttpContext.Current.Request object.

Client Side:

var data = { Name: "Tom" };

$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: url,
    data: JSON.stringify(data),
    dataType: "json",
    contentType: "application/json",
    success: function (response) {

    }
    });

In API:

[HttpPost]
[Route("UploadProduct")]
public HttpResponseMessage Upload()
{

if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(HttpContext.Current.Request["Name"]))
                return "Name is missing";

//... removed for brevity

}

Why key Name is always empty ?

I know Json data will bind to model object only. But like to know if it's possible to get data from HttpContext.Current.Request object by making some changes in client side ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1419

Answers (1)

Yom T.
Yom T.

Reputation: 9190

OK, try this:

Change contentType to application/x-www-form-urlencoded, remove the JSON.stringify() and just pass the JSON data as is. With this you should be able to get the form values with this.Request.Form["Name"] or simply this.Request["Name"] or even HttpContext.Current.Request["Name"].

When you POST data to server (particularly with content types other than application/x-www-form-urlencoded), the content is being placed in the Request body, and so it's not going to be available for reading in the Request.Form name-value collection object.

For nested data, you can query the values just like you would with Javascript object literal, something like:

var data = {
  Name: "Tom",
  Address: {
    Street: "ABC"
  }
}

this.Request.Form["Address[Street]"] // ABC

Although it's always better to use model binding whenever possible.

Upvotes: 2

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