ASP.NET Web API is a framework for building HTTP services for clients like browsers and mobile devices. It is based on the Microsoft .NET Framework and ideal choice for building RESTful services.
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How to stop chrome from caching REST response from WebApi?
I am using ASP.NET WebApi and have the following code to stop caching in everything:
public override System.Threading.Tasks.Task<HttpResponseMessage> ...
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How can I prevent File.Copy failing in Web API task code?
I have some Web API code that I've assembled from SO posts and other sites. However, the Task stuff is still new to me. I'm trying to copy an uploaded file to a new location, but sometimes (not all ...
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Cannot add ValueProviderFactory to Web API
I'm working with MVC 4 and I have this simple dummy ValueProvider:
class DummyValueProviderFactory : ValueProviderFactory
{
public override IValueProvider GetValueProvider(ControllerContext ...
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Restful web service GET request parameters
I'm using fiddler to test a Web API service I'm writing.
I know I can pass parameters to a RESTful web service in the querystring with a request like -
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Wrap XML Output on ASP.NET Web API
So I'm working on a web API that a Roku Channel will interact with to send and receive data. Roku SDK has a built in XML Parser that is easy to use, but the only problem is that Roku will only parse ...
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AngularJS passing Response as header/Web API
New to Angular but I am learning.
What my goal is: I have a login view that passes a user object to our API, API checks it against user database and reposnds with Base64 conversion of username and ...
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Knockout.js validation using extenders - prevent validation on load
I have implemented a very basic required validation on "first name" largely based on the example suggested on knockout website (http://knockoutjs.com/documentation/extenders.html) - Live example 2: ...
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return login success from a web api to an mvc 4 application
my colleague and myself are working on an application form with login functionality the user logs in from the mvc 4 app and there details are submitted to the web api to be checked against the values ...
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Performance best practices [on hold]
I'm doing REST API on Azure Cloud Services with C#. And I need to serve many simultaneous requests.
What would be best practices on connecting to database, caching, etc?
Like, when do I need to ...
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MVC Web API POST request not working from client application but working from chrome Postman extension
I have a web API service with the controller as follows.
RoutePrefix("api/Product")]
public class ProductController : ApiController
{
[HttpPost]
[POST("InsertProduct")]
public ...
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What does JsonFormatter.MaxDepth do?
What does the MaxDepth property effect in the JsonMediaTypeFormatter? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.http.formatting.jsonmediatypeformatter.maxdepth(v=vs.108).aspx
Changing this ...
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Multiple GET actions
I'm creating the following controller:
public FoosController : ApiController
{
public IQueryable Get()
{
return AnODataQueryableListOfFoos();
}
public void Delete(Guid id)
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Make the XmlMediaTypeFormatter use fallback characters when Encoding fails
So, I'm dealing with some pretty nasty legacy data, and I need pass some of it to a RESTful API.
I'm using WebApi Client (the nuget package), and I'm running into a problem: Sometimes, one of my ...
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AngularJS save() returns incorrect response from Web API
I have an angularJS site using a Web API backend. I am trying to do a save and I am expecting to get back a resulttype enum which is defined below
public enum ResultType
{
Success,
...
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Web-API, DelegatingHandler and security. Principal is reset in Controller
I've a DelegatingHandler in my Web-API service that, based on the headers provided, set a custom IPrincipal (ServicePrincipal) on the Thread.CurrentPrincipal and on the HttpContext.Current.User. This ...
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Entity Framework 4 issue
Using .NET Web API (.NET 4, EF 4) and I'm getting some strange errors when debugging and really can't figure what is going on.
Say in the DocumentRepository I have this constructor:
public ...
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Testing ASP.NET Web API File upload
I am trying to use N-UNIT to test my web API application but I am unable to find a proper way to test my file upload method. Which would be the best approach to test the method?
Web API Controller:
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Either OData or Code-First fails: derived navigation properties
I'm having a complex situation where I either get a problem with the Code-First portion of my project, or a problem with the OData portion of my project...
I have an abstract class Person of which ...
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Circular Reference error when serializing objects in ASP.NET Web API
I'm writing a Web API project in C# that uses Entity Framework to pull data from a DB, serialize it and send it to a client.
My project has 2 classes, Post and Comment (foreign key from Post).
These ...
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End User Style Testing of asp.net mvc web api
I am using this default project of asp.net web API . Now I want to create a BDD style End User testing .
I want to consume my web API as my real user will do in BDD way using specflow . I searched ...
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CORS POST Requests not working - OPTIONS (Bad Request) - The origin is not allowed
I'm having a lot of trouble getting a cross domain POST request to hit an Api controller in the latest beta 2 release.
Chrome (and other browsers) spit out:
OPTIONS ...
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Retrieve JSON ordered results array with no names from Asp.net MVC web api
I'm taking my first stab at Asp.Net Web API and MVC to retrieve JSON results. When I query the controller, I receive the following JSON set:
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Exception in ExceptionFilterAttribute is always of type HttpResponseException
Following this post on exception handling in the ASP.NET Web API, I created an ExceptionFilterAttribute that looks like this:
public class NotImplExceptionFilterAttribute : ExceptionFilterAttribute
{
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How do I make properties returned in ASP Web API configurable?
Several RESTful APIs give the caller options for the amount of data they have returned, often by a querystring parameter (eg stackexchange's filter parameter).
I'd like to at least provide some ...
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Pivot json data from array of models
I host a web api service, which returns a snapshot of my model "myModel" for the last 12 months. The json array that I receive on my client is a simple array of 12 "myMydel" objects.
If myModel has ...
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Posting json to mvc 4 WebApi controller action. Why doesn't it deserialize my array?
The following has been driving me a bit crazy. I have found a couple of similar problems but they did not offer a solution. I am trying to post a json object containing a few data items. One of them ...
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KO Single page app. Async data calls randomly failing/not binding
I've got a single screen with multiple dropdowns. Each get populated via a web api call.
I'm in an active directory environment. I'm using the Durandal SPA framework.
At the moment I do the loading ...
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Invoking OData actions from C# client and parsing the response
I'm writing a server using ASP.Net WebAPI pre-release bits in VS2012 (I'm happy to use VS2013 although I don't think it will help at the moment).
In it I have a bunch of OData controllers exposing ...
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serialize to C# MVC model class from knockout Model
-----knock out js code------------
var User = function () {
this.UserName = ko.observable();
this.Password = ko.observable();
};
var LoginViewModel = function () {
var self = this;
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Consuming ASP.Net Web API from developer client workstation
I have developed a .Net Webapi which uses Entity Framework and all is functioning correctly using the uri... //mywebserver/webappfolder/api/mycontroller?val=1&val=2&val=3
The EF and API are ...
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How do I document an optional QueryString parameter in ASP.NET WebApi Help Pages?
The ASP.Net Web Api Help Pages seem to automatically determine if a parameter is in the Request Uri or Body. How can I document option parameters that are QueryString parameters?
For example I have ...
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Custom Json.NET serializer settings per type
I am using an ApiController which uses the global HttpConfiguration class to specify the JsonFormatter settings. I can globally set serialization settings as follows very easily:
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allow custom header in web api
I need to allow a custom header called "secretToken". And every call to my webapi, the user should pass this header.
I searched for a way to do that, but I could not found an easy way. How can I ...
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ModelState serialization
I am trying to implement custom validation in Web API. The code in Galloway's video on the subject seems to have changed. I did download the code and the way the create action filter is like this:
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asp.net webapi / jquery : loading an xml stream
I have an ASP.NET WebAPI method that returns a string containing a valid XML document:
public class MessageController : ApiController
{
private readonly MyContextProvider _contextProvider = new ...
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OWIN OnSendingHeaders Callback - Reading Response Body
This question is related to the excellent answer by Youssef. I love OnSendingHeaders callback. I can now add the response headers without worrying about switching streams. Anyways, here is my ...
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ASP.NET Web API Custom Role Provider GetRolesForUser Only Called Once
I am using a custom role provider with Web API. I use the Authorize attribute to specify which roles the user must have on each controller. I use Windows authentication, so the user doesn't need to ...
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Android request to a ASP.NET Web API
I'm trying to make a GET request to a ASP.NET Web API from Android. The API should return a JSON object with some users. When calling the API from the browser everything works fine, but when ...
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Removing References from Asp.Net Web Api Project
I'm creating a new asp.net web api project, and it will works just as an Rest API, there is no interfaces and web standards, just a rest service to serv from other front-end applications. When I ...
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breezejs: populate the error property of SaveResult
Currently when calling SaveChanges on the webapi controller, if a business rules is not satifisfied, we throw an exception with the error message.
It's bad practice and instead we should return with ...
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PATCHing entities in Web API
I was wondering how to use the PATCH HTTP verb on my application since sometimes I don't need to update the whole entity.
The problem, is that in C# the lack of value is represented by null (there is ...
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c# webapi httpget attribute
I am following this tutorial:
http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/web-api-routing-and-actions/create-a-rest-api-with-attribute-routing
and looking at the "Get Book Details" section.
I see this ...
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MVC 4: Durandal bundling cache
My site is built on a WebAPI back end...
the issues occurs on deployment, as my Uri wasn't formatted correctly due to our IIS deployment/site structure
WRONG
http://itil.mysite.com/api/Building
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How I can use OData services with MVC4?
In my project CloudMiddleware a have services for integrations with API like, PayPal, Twilio, etc. I have endpoints for SOAP, REST and AJAX requests, I want to use ODATA flexibility also because ...
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How to render the partial view after getting the data from the Web Api Controller [on hold]
I want to render the partial view after getting the data from the web api controller action.
I want to do the following operations:
Need to get the data from the web api controller using post method ...
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Ninject Transient Scope + Scope Disposal + Garbage Collection + Memory Leak
I am new at this (I'm still learning), I would appreciate very much if you Jedi masters out there can help me out with the question and concern that I have.
I want to use Ninject and I have the codes ...
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WEB-API OData $Batch fails after update to nightly build July 15
I've been using a nightly build from back in June up until today. I had written a Batch handler to parse my request, and it was working. After the update, my ParseBatchRequestsAsync is called once for ...
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JSON .Net generates schema incorrectly (type as an array)
When using the JSON.Net JsonSchemaGenerator to generate JSON Schema for my object:
Public Class Host
Public Property uid() As String
End Class
It generates the type property as an array of ...
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MongoDB C# driver and MVC4 webapi. Issue in json serialization
I am using MongoDB database with MVC4 WebAPI using the C# driver provided by MongoDB. I have a an issue with serialization. I get the following error,
"ExceptionMessage=Error getting value from ...
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Converting HttpRequestMessage to OwinRequest and OwinResponse to HttpResponseMessage
I have a web API message handler MyHandler that I want to run in OWIN pipeline as a middleware. So configuring the handler like this.
public class Startup
{
public void Configuration(IAppBuilder ...
