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I have a Backbone.js application and it's calling one of my WEB API custom POST method. Here is the code to my Custom POST

WebApiConfig.cs

config.Routes.MapHttpRoute
            (
                name: "UserAdministrationApi",
                routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/PostUserInfo/{EmployeeDTO}",
                defaults: new
                {
                    EmployeeDTO = RouteParameter.Optional,
                    controller = "UserAdministration",
                    action = "PostUserInfo",
                });

Controller

        [HttpPost]
        [ActionName("PostUserInfo")]
        public HttpResponseMessage PostUserInfo(EmployeeDTO value)
        {
            // handling POST
        }

EmployeeDTO

   public class EmployeeDTO
   {
    public bool masAccess { get; set; }
    public bool reportAccess { get; set; }
    public string name { get; set; }
    public string office { get; set; }
   }

When I try to test this in Fiddler even before going to test it with Backbone.js code, I am getting 500 Internal error. Not sure what's wrong

// FIDDLER TEST

POST : http://localhost:56501/api/useradministration/PostUserInfo



Request Body

  {
     masAccess:"true"
     reportAccess:"false"
   }

Thank you for the help

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What is the request you are using to test this? Also code inside PostUserInfo might be relevant. –  Andrei Jun 5 at 17:18
 
value parameter itself is getting set to null. –  codeinzone Jun 5 at 17:24
 
Is this exactly how you test it with fiddler? Since by default fiddler expects body in form of query string: masAccess=true&reportAccess=false. –  Andrei Jun 5 at 17:27

1 Answer

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A few things:

The EmployeeDTO should not be part of the routeTemplate, as Andrei mentioned.

Your request body is not valid JSON according to JSONlint.com. Try 

{
  "masAccess": "true",
  "reportAccess": "false"
}

Also, you may need to add the header Content-Type: application/json to your Fiddler request.

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I think it has nothing to do with the EmployeeDTO in the router config. I just had to set Content-Type: application/json in the header. Thanks man. It's a very simple thing and I missed that. –  codeinzone Jun 5 at 17:32
 
Yeah... I was also missing Content-Type: application/json. Thanks for the heads up! :) –  Leniel Macaferi Nov 13 at 14:26

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