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Serializing complex EF model over JSON
I have done a lot of searching and experimenting and have been unable to find a workable resolution to this problem.
Environment/Tools
Visual Studio 2013
C#
Three tier web application:
Database ...
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Jquery getjson calling wrong domain in asp.net web api [duplicate]
I am learning Asp.Net web Api from the book Practical Asp.Net Web Api by Badrinarayan Lakshmiraghavan. Using Visual Studio 2013, I have created an app having two projects TalentManager.Core and ...
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Do I need to replace HttpWebRequest with one that has a “Content” member, or do I need to use a different type altogether?
In Web API server code, I need to respond to data sent within an HTTP request (rather than embedded within the URL). Specifically, there will be quite a bit of data (actually, a stringified XML file) ...
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BreezeJS - results from multiple linq queries into a single object
I'm wondering if it is possible to take the results of multiple queries, and append them into a collections object for breeze to query even further?
here's an example of what I mean and using the ...
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Where should I plug in my custom DefaultContractResolver JSON.NET?
I have a WebAPI 2.0 project in ASP.Net in which I implemented a custom DefaultContractResolver so that I can control how my entities are serialized to JSON using JSON.Net; however I am unsure about ...
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WebAPI Method Reads Multiple Actions Found
I have two methods, both of which work perfectly one their own (i.e. when one of them is commented out) but when both are in the program, I get this error:
{"Message":"An error has ...
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Web API action executes successfully but I see no response in the client application
From an ASP.NET MVC app, I make a POST request to an action on my Web API. The action in the API executes successfully. When I make the same request in a REST client such as Postman for Chrome, I see ...
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HTTP call return type issue
I am calling an action method in my controller from C# code.
The action method returns "IHttpActionResult" but when I get the response from the place I call the method I get the response as ...
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ActionContext.ActionArguments Is Empty In IAuthenticationFilter
Background:
I want to authenticate a POST request to my web API using an implementation of IAuthenticationFilter injected using Ninject. To authenticate a request I need access to request body.
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Sending parameters with HTTP post request
I am doing a HTTP request from my C# project to a controller I have. I am using webapi 2 in both cases. I manage to enter the controller's method but when I check the data I send it stays null or ...
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autofac not working for WebAPI 2 on azure website
I'm trying to setup my web api on azure, Everything is working file locally but when i deploy to azure I get the following error message :
An error occurred when trying to create a controller of ...
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Call WebApi controller from another controller
So I have two projects in my solution. Both are WebApi. I have controllers in both and I can call them from the client side - javascript.
The problem is that I need to call a method in the controller ...
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web api 2 with Asp.net identity custom
I customized the template web API 2 of VS2013 with regard to the use of ASP.NET Identity. Now I have my tables with my logic of saving information. I call these web api from a web application ...
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Sending overwriting response on HttpContext.Current is not a good idea?
I have a service where people use oData in order to filter data. Sample string goes like so $orderby=[SSN]&$top=3. When string cannot be parsed it throws InvalidCastException and I catch it and ...
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How do I limit API access to known client applications in a Web API 2 application?
I've created an application that is comprised of three main components:
A .NET Web Api 2 project that provides several WebApiControllers. Some methods, like "Register" are open to anonymous access, ...
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Which entity types need Controllers generated for Web API OData Entity Framework solution?
I Have an Model First Entity Framework project. It contains Enums, Complex Types, and 1:1 relationships with inherited types.
Example: I have a Coupon type. A coupon has either a single FixedOff ...
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Wrap XML root node with parent node
I have a .net Web Api 2 application that delivers data in XML.
My problem:
One of my classes looks like this:
public class Horse
{
public string Name { get;set; }
public string Category { ...
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How to get a flattened list back to breezejs through webapi2?
I have been struggling with this for a week now. I have a table of Person and Company in the DB. However, there is also a joiner Table of CompanyPerson which has some extra properties like ...
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WebAPI2 + Angular http GET - returning IEnumerable<Categories>. failed to serialize the response body for content type 'application/json
Greetings and thank you for reading my post !
Ok.. this is probably pretty easy for some, but for me... i'm learning this as we speak and find some of this pretty strange and hard ;)
Here is the ...
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Resolving interfaces in WebAPI
I have a controller method with the following signature
[HttpGet]
[Route("results")]
public List<IResult> GetResults()
{
return repo.GetResults();
}
Not surprisingly, I get a JSON .NET ...
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Where is the Autofac InstancePerApiRequest scope disposed?
I am going through the code of both Autofac.Integration.WebApi and Autofac.Integration.WebApi.Owin and I can see how the InstancePerApiRequest/InstancePerHttpRequest lifetime scope is being created ...
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Timeout a Web Api request?
Like MVC WebApi runs on the asynchronous ASP.NET pipeline, meaning execution timeout is unsupported.
In MVC I use the [AsyncTimeout] filter, WebApi doesn't have this. So how do I timeout a request in ...
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How to integrate Autofac with WepApi 2 and Owin?
I am using this package to integrate Autofac with my WebApi Owin application:
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Autofac.WebApi2.Owin
And following this post:
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WebAPI not serializing inherited class on POST?
Here is my controller method:
[System.Web.Http.HttpPost]
[System.Web.Http.Route("api/exercise")]
public HttpResponseMessage CreateExercise(ExerciseDto exercise) {
Here are my classes:
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Value object serialization options
I am coding a value object for my domain object identifier, similar to what is done here. Basically I am just wrapping a guid.
By following this article's advice I was able to create a custom model ...
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Azure Mobile Services - Does it ignore Application_Start?
In an Azure Mobile Service project, I have a static class WebApiConfig with a static method Register() located in the App_Start folder.
From Global.asax.cs, I used to call the register method:
public ...
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IHttpActionResult variable passing null in test method
I am writing a test method for an IHttpActionresult controller. The ActionResult is not NULL and contains the required data (Customer.ID = 986574123). However in line two the variable CreatedResult is ...
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ASP MVC 5 Web Api 2 pass e-mail through
I followed this tutorial to get my live account oauth working on my asp mvc 5 and web api 2 app.
All goes well and with an additional scope I can fetch the users e-mail. But how do I pass it through ...
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Add custom key on C# Aspnet WebApi result object
I have to create Asp.Net WebApi.
I have this structured objects
[Serializable()]
public partial class OrderList
{
[Key]
public string ClienteId;
public List<Ordine> Ordini;
}
...
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Web API 2 returning text/plain responses
Really struggling with something I hope people here can help with. I'm writing a RESTful API in Web API 2. Whenever I send a request to this service, the response is consistently being sent with a ...
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Weird “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” error while using Moq
I am trying to run my test however the I get an "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". Any thoughts? I am using Moq.
Test Method:
// Arrange
...
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Null parameter with MVC Web-API in OWIN Self-Host
I'm hosting the Web-API using OWIN on a Azure Worker Role following this tutorials:
http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/hosting-aspnet-web-api/use-owin-to-self-host-web-api
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Preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery Attacks With a Windows Client Application
I develop an web application by web api2.
My client application is a windows application that developed by C# , .net 4.0.
The client application sends some Json data to the web api application and ...
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Setting content-type for Web API 2 response
I'm really confused about the most appropriate way to return responses for my RESTful API that I'm building using Web API 2.
At first I made my actions return IHttpActionResult and in the method I ...
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How to return from an IHttpActionResult method a custom variable?
I am trying to get this JSON response with an Ihttpstatus header that states code 201 and keep IHttpActionResult as my method return type.
JSON I want returned:
{"CustomerID": 324}
My method:
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DateTime Format In Model Binding
In my Web API project I have following model:
public class ModelClass
{
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Date Cannot Be Empty", AllowEmptyStrings = false)]
[DataType(DataType.Date, ...
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Render dictionary with foreach
I've got a dictionary that has been serialized by WebApi2 so that the key is the object name and the value is the value.
How can I make knockout render that with it's foreach binding?
I tried to ...
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Best practice to return different data in Web Api 2 with HTTP Accept Header
We have a Web Api 2 project with the following route:
public class AccountController : ApiController
{
// GET /accounts/search?name={name}`
public PagedSearchResult<SimpleAccount> ...
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ReadAsStreamAsync stuck in Waiting For Activation
I'm getting a Task<HttpResponseMessage> result from the server and I'm trying to read a stream from it in the following way:
result.Result.Content.ReadAsStreamAsync().ContinueWith((task) => ...
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HttpResponseMessage content is not getting serialized for BadRequest responses
I have ASP.NET application, with some MVC and WebAPI controllers in there. MVC 5.1 and WebAPI 2.1. There is no tricky configuration at all, the only thing is getting configured is removed XML ...
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Parent object goes out of scope when I have captured child property - when does it dispose the child property?
I wasn't quite sure how to word the question, but to elaborate, I'm using the AWS SDK in my ASP.Net Web API 2 project and I want to return a response stream for an S3 object - the stream is delivered ...
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Catching exceptions in web api - Should I use a try-catch statement?
This is a sample ApiController used
[RequestExceptionFilter]
public class RequestController : ApiController
{
public IHttpActionResult Post([FromBody]Request RequestDTO)
{
//some ...
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500 Server Error when calling RESTFUL Web API over HTTP
I have the following structure for my WEB API controller:
public class MyController : ApiController
{
[System.Web.Http.HttpPost]
public bool Method1([FromBody] int id, [FromBody] string token, ...
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Model validation - Why ModelState.IsValid always returns true even when no values are supplied?
This is regarding WEBAPI and
the following is my Model class.
public class Request
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
[Required]
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Can you post an anonymous object as json to a webapi method and it match the properties of the json object to the parameters of the webapi call?
Can I have a webapi method
[Route("someroute")]
public void SomeMethod(string variable1, int variable2, Guid variable3)
{
//... Code here
}
simple json
var jsonvariable = new {
...
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Uniform, consistent error responses from ASP.Net Web API 2
I'm developing a Web API 2 application and I'm currently trying to format error resposnes in a uniform way (so that the consumer will also know what data object/structure they can inspect to get more ...
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Ninject error in WebAPI 2.1 - Make sure that the controller has a parameterless public constructor
I have the following packages and their dependencies installed in my WebAPI project:
Ninject.Web.WebApi
Ninject.Web.WebApi.OwinHost
I am running this purely as a web-api project. No MVC.
When I ...
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Downloading File With Web API using Jquery Post
I have a web Api function that returns a file stream
[HttpPost]
public HttpResponseMessage DownloadDocument([FromBody] parameters)
{
try
{
var stream = ...
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Entity context provider metadata does not contains error message
I have a class order which contains OrderNo property. I have just set Required field validation with set necessary message.
private string _OrderNo;
[Required(ErrorMessage="Order No Is ...
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Model validation in Web API - Exception is thrown with out a throw statement?
I have seen the model validation from here (Under section: Handling Validation Errors).
The code-snippet is as below in Web API
public class ValidateModel : ActionFilterAttribute
{
...
