I have an existing Web API 2 service and need to modify one of the methods to take a custom object as another parameter, currently the method has one parameter which is a simple string coming from the URL. After adding the custom object as a parameter I am now getting a 415 unsupported media type error when calling the service from a .NET windows app. Interestingly, I can successfully call this method using javascript and the jquery ajax method.
The Web API 2 service method looks like this:
<HttpPost>
<HttpGet>
<Route("{view}")>
Public Function GetResultsWithView(view As String, pPaging As Paging) As HttpResponseMessage
Dim resp As New HttpResponseMessage
Dim lstrFetchXml As String = String.Empty
Dim lstrResults As String = String.Empty
Try
'... do some work here to generate xml string for the response
'// write xml results to response
resp.Content = New StringContent(lstrResults)
resp.Content.Headers.ContentType.MediaType = "text/xml"
resp.Headers.Add("Status-Message", "Query executed successfully")
resp.StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.OK
Catch ex As Exception
resp.StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError
resp.Headers.Add("Status-Message", String.Format("Error while retrieving results from view {0}: {1}", view, ex.Message))
End Try
Return resp
End Function
The method allows both POST
and GET
because the Paging
object is optional. If I call this method with a GET
request it works.
And the simple .NET client code calling the service looks like this:
Dim uri As String = BASE_URI + "fetch/someview"
Dim resp As HttpWebResponse
Dim sr As StreamReader
Dim lstrResponse As String
Dim reqStream As Stream
Dim bytData As Byte()
Dim req As HttpWebRequest = WebRequest.Create(uri)
Dim lstrPagingJSON As String
Dim lPaging As New Paging
Try
lPaging.Page = 1
lPaging.Count = 100
lPaging.PagingCookie = ""
req.Method = "POST"
lstrPagingJSON = JsonSerializer(Of Paging)(lPaging)
bytData = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(lstrPagingJSON)
req.ContentLength = bytData.Length
reqStream = req.GetRequestStream()
reqStream.Write(bytData, 0, bytData.Length)
reqStream.Close()
req.ContentType = "application/json"
resp = req.GetResponse()
sr = New StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream, Encoding.UTF8)
lstrResponse = sr.ReadToEnd
'// do something with the response here
Catch exweb As WebException
txtOutput.AppendText("Error during request: " + exweb.Message)
Catch ex As Exception
txtOutput.AppendText(String.Format("General error during request to {0}: {1}", uri, ex.Message))
End Try
The .NET client is running on the 4.5 framework and the service is on 4.5.2 framework. The error is thrown at the resp = req.GetResponse()
line. Some things I tried already:
req.Accept
value to "application/xml" or
"text/xml"So far I keep getting the same 415 error response no matter what I try.
I mentioned this works when called from javascript, here's my ajax call that is working:
$.ajax({
headers: {},
url: "api/fetch/someview",
type: "POST",
data: "{Count:100,Page:1,PagingCookie:\"\"}",
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
dataType: "xml",
success: function (data) {
alert("call succeeded");
},
failure: function (response) {
alert("call failed");
}
});
On the service side, there is nothing fancy going on with the route config or anything else, it's pretty much all out-of-the-box Web API 2. I know the routing is working, calls are being correctly routed to the method, they're not going somewhere else unexpectedly, so what am I missing in the .NET client? Any help is much appreciated!
--- UPDATE ---
I tried to create a completely new Web API service to rule out any possible issues with the existing service, I created a controller with a single method that takes a custom object as the parameter. I then tried calling that from the .NET client and got the same error. I also tried using WebClient instead of HttpWebRequest, but still get the same error. This is also something that previously worked for me with Web API (prior to Web API 2).
--- UPDATE ---
I also tried creating a new web app using Web API 1, when I call that with a POST my complex object parameter is now coming in null. I have another web service running Web API 1 and verified that I can still call that successfully with complex objects. Whatever my problem is, it appears to be something with the JSON passing between the client and server. I have checked the JSON I'm sending it and its valid, the object definition is also an exact match between the client and server so the JSON should be able to be parsed by the server.
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