How to read JSON object to WebAPI

Question

I\'ve checked a few similar questions, but none of the answers seem to fit (or dumb it down enough for me). So, I have a really simple WebAPI to check if user with an email

Answer 1

Problem: Your current implementation are sending the email as an entity on a GET request. This is a problem because GET requests does not carry an entity HTTP/1.1 Methods Solution: Change the request to a POST

Now because you are POST'ing the email from your client to your api, you have to change the API implementation to POST:

public bool Post(UserResponse id)

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To make sure your posted entity is bound correctly, you can use [FromBody] like:

public bool Post([FromBody] UserResponse id)

If you do this (and you have not yet overridden the default model binder), you have to annotate your model like:

[DataContract]
public class UserResponse
{
    [DataMember]
    public string email { get; set; }
}

I think that is all - hope it works :)