Issue with sending XML to Web Api via http Post request

Question

I would like to send the following XML document to my Web Api 2 controller; however, the [FromBody] parameter is always null.

Here is the request XML bo

Answer 1

Final solution was to change the Post param type to XElement:

[Route("api/razorXmlRequest")]
public class RazorXmlRequestController : ApiController
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Raw Razor request XML 
    /// </summary>
    /// <returns>Razor reply message as text</returns>
    [HttpPost]
    public async Task<HttpResponseMessage> Post([FromBody]XElement xml)
    {
        HttpResponseMessage resp = new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK);
        RazorSession cred = RzWebApi.Cred;
        string reply = await RzWebApi.RazorSrv.xmlRequests.Request(cred, xml);
        resp.Content = new StringContent(reply, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8, "application/xml");
        return resp;
    }
}

This worked straight-away without even providing the XmlFormatter as the gentlemen had suggested above (@TusharJ, thank you anyway for your input).

Answer 2

You can configure Web API to use XmlSerializer in your WebApiConfig.Register as follows;

config.Formatters.XmlFormatter.UseXmlSerializer = true;