It seems that if
Content-Type: application/json andThen MVC doesn't really bind the POST body to any particular class. Nor can you just fetch the POST body as a param of the ActionResult (suggested in another answer). Fair enough. You need to fetch it from the request stream yourself and process it.
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Index(int? id)
{
Stream req = Request.InputStream;
req.Seek(0, System.IO.SeekOrigin.Begin);
string json = new StreamReader(req).ReadToEnd();
InputClass input = null;
try
{
// assuming JSON.net/Newtonsoft library from http://json.codeplex.com/
input = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<InputClass>(json)
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// Try and handle malformed POST body
return new HttpStatusCodeResult(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest);
}
//do stuff
}
Update:
for Asp.Net Core, you have to add [FromBody] attrib beside your param name in your controller action for complex JSON data types:
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult JsonAction([FromBody]Customer c)
Also, if you want to access the request body as string to parse it yourself, you shall use Request.Body instead of Request.InputStream:
Stream req = Request.Body;
req.Seek(0, System.IO.SeekOrigin.Begin);
string json = new StreamReader(req).ReadToEnd();