How to get HttpRequestMessage data

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I have an MVC API controller with the following action    I don t understand how to read the actual data body of the Message    HttpPost  public void Confirmation HttpRequestMessage request        var content   request Content

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In case you want to cast to a class and not just a string   YourClass model   await request Content ReadAsAsync lt YourClass gt

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System IO StreamReader reader   new System IO StreamReader HttpContext Current Request InputStream     reader BaseStream Position   0    string requestFromPost   reader ReadToEnd

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I suggest that you should not do it like this  Action methods should be designed to be easily unit-tested  In this case  you should not access data directly from the request  because if you do it like this  when you want to unit test this code you have to construct a HttpRequestMessage   You should do it like this to let MVC do all the model binding for you    HttpPost  public void Confirmation YOURDTO yourobj   assume that you define YOURDTO elsewhere             your logic to process input parameters       In case you do want to access the request  You just access the Request property of the controller  not through parameters   Like this    HttpPost  public void Confirmation         var content   Request Content ReadAsStringAsync   Result      In MVC  the Request property is actually a wrapper around  NET HttpRequest  and inherit from a base class  When you need to unit test  you could also mock this object

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From this answer    HttpPost  public void Confirmation HttpRequestMessage request        var content   request Content      string jsonContent   content ReadAsStringAsync   Result      Note  As seen in the comments  this code could cause a deadlock and should not be used  See this blog post for more detail

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