Serializing an object with restsharp and passing it to WebApi not serializing list

Question

I have a a view model that looks like.

public class StoreItemViewModel
{
    public Guid ItemId { get; set; }
    public List StoreIds { get; set; }
         


        

Answer 1

I struggled with the same problem and came up a working solution.

1. Be sure to set the request format to JSON:

   request.RequestFormat = DataFormat.Json;

2. Use AddBody, rather than AddObject:

   request.AddBody(zNewSessionUsage);

So your code would be something like this:

public static IRestResponse Create(object objectToUpdate, string apiEndPoint) where T : new()
{
    var client = new RestClient(CreateBaseUrl(null))
    {
        Authenticator = new HttpBasicAuthenticator("user", "Password1")
    };

    var request = new RestRequest(apiEndPoint, Method.POST);
    request.RequestFormat = DataFormat.Json;
    request.AddBody(objectToUpdate);
    var response = client.Execute(request);
    return response;
}