title: Issue with sending XML to Web Api via http Post request
body: <p>I would like to send the following XML document to my Web Api 2 controller; however, the <code>[FromBody]</code> parameter is always null.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the request XML body:</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;razorInbound server="PortfolioExposureServer" request="lookupRiskPointRecord"&gt;
    &lt;caller&gt;RazorClient&lt;/caller&gt;
    &lt;responseMode&gt;xml&lt;/responseMode&gt;
    &lt;body&gt;
      &lt;conditions&gt;
        &lt;fromOffset&gt;0&lt;/fromOffset&gt;
        &lt;top&gt;100&lt;/top&gt;
        &lt;condition&gt;
          &lt;keyPath&gt;
            &lt;keyElement nodeOffset='1'&gt;Currency&lt;/keyElement&gt;
            &lt;keyElement nodeOffset='2'&gt;ID&lt;/keyElement&gt;
          &lt;/keyPath&gt;
          &lt;lookupValue&gt;USD&lt;/lookupValue&gt;
        &lt;/condition&gt;
      &lt;/conditions&gt;
    &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/razorInbound&gt;</code></pre>
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  <p>Using Postman to send the request, is as follows :</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>POST /api/razorXmlRequest HTTP/1.1
  Host: localhost:5000
  Content-Type: application/xml
  Cache-Control: no-cache
  Postman-Token: 6ca91ebf-31e0-77f2-6f81-cb9993b69b1a
  
  &lt;razorInbound server="PortfolioExposureServer" request="lookupRiskPointRecord"&gt;
    &lt;caller&gt;RazorClient&lt;/caller&gt;
    &lt;responseMode&gt;xml&lt;/responseMode&gt;
    &lt;body&gt;
      &lt;conditions&gt;
        &lt;fromOffset&gt;0&lt;/fromOffset&gt;
        &lt;top&gt;100&lt;/top&gt;
        &lt;condition&gt;
          &lt;keyPath&gt;
            &lt;keyElement nodeOffset='1'&gt;Currency&lt;/keyElement&gt;
            &lt;keyElement nodeOffset='2'&gt;ID&lt;/keyElement&gt;
          &lt;/keyPath&gt;
          &lt;lookupValue&gt;USD&lt;/lookupValue&gt;
        &lt;/condition&gt;
      &lt;/conditions&gt;
    &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/razorInbound&gt;</code></pre>
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  <p>And the Web Api 2 controller :</p>
  
  <p>NOTE: The <code>param</code> parameter is always <code>null</code></p>
  
  <p>I believe I need a proper class definition to correctly map the XML request, but I'm not sure how to construct it.</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-js lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>using System;
  using System.Threading.Tasks;
  using System.IO;
  using System.Text;
  using RazorServices;
  using System.Net.Http;
  using System.Web.Http;
  using System.Xml.Linq;
  using System.Net;
  using System.Xml;
  
  namespace RazorWebApi.Controllers
  {
      [Route("api/razorXmlRequest")]
      public class RazorXmlRequestController : ApiController
      {
          public class RawXml {
              public string RazorXml { get; set; }
          }
  
          [HttpPost]
          public async Task&lt;HttpResponseMessage&gt; Post([FromBody]RawXml param )
          {
              HttpResponseMessage resp = new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK);
  
              // code omitted...
     
              return resp;
          }
      }
  }</code></pre>
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  <p>And by the way, we are currently getting around this issue by setting up a <code>StreamReader</code> object to pull from <code>this.Request.Content</code>; however in my unit test I need to send my xml as a parameter.</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-js lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>[HttpPost]
          public async Task&lt;HttpResponseMessage&gt; Post()   // [FromBody]RawXml param )
          {
              HttpResponseMessage resp = new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK);
  
              StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(await this.Request.Content.ReadAsStreamAsync(), Encoding.UTF8);
              string xml = sr.ReadToEnd();
  
              if (xml == null || xml.Length &lt; 4)
              {
                  throw new RazorServicesException("Invalid XML");
              }
              RazorSession cred = RzWebApi.Cred;
              string reply = await RzWebApi.RazorSrv.xmlRequests.Request(cred, xml);
              resp.Content = new StringContent(reply, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8, "text/plain");
              return resp;
          }</code></pre>
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