Post Api with few fields

Ramco Ramco

5y673.NET

I have below Api but i want only 3 values ID,Name,DepartmentId to be passed in Body to this Api with Encrytion

How it can be done.

[HttpPost]

[ResponseType(typeof(Employee))]

public HttpResponseMessage PostEmployee([FromBody]Employee employee)

{

try

{

db.Employees.Add(employee);

db.SaveChanges();

var message = Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.Created, employee);

message.Headers.Location = new Uri(Request.RequestUri + employee.ID.ToString());

return message;

}

catch (Exception ex)

{

return Request.CreateErrorResponse(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest, ex);

}

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public partial class Employee

{

public int ID { get; set; }

public string Name { get; set; }

public string Email { get; set; }

public string Gender { get; set; }

public Nullable Salary { get; set; }

public Nullable DepartmentId { get; set; }

public string Active { get; set; }

public Nullable CreatedOn { get; set; }

public Nullable UpdatedOn { get; set; }

//public Department Department { get; set; }

public virtual Department Department { get; set; }

}

Thanks

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Sachin Singh5y ago
This is what i asked you, what are you using as client app,
if you are sending values from MVC to web api then in MVC controller action , if using jquery to send data then jquery Ajax data section , if using postman or fiddler like clients then directly in the body section.
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Ramco Ramco5y ago
Hi Sachin
where i should write this code -
Employee emp= new Employee();
emp.Name="Sachin";
emp.DepartmentId=3;
AddEmployees(emp);
public class EmployeesController : ApiController
{
private PMDbEntities db = new PMDbEntities();
// GET: api/Employees
public IHttpActionResult GetEmployees()
{
try
{
var results = (from d in db.Employees
join f in db.Departments
on d.DepartmentId equals f.ID
select new
{
Id = d.ID,
Name = d.Name,
Department = f.Description
}).ToList();
if (results == null)
{
return NotFound();
}
return Ok(results);
}
catch (Exception)
{
return BadRequest();
}
}
// POST: api/Employees
[HttpPost]
[ResponseType(typeof(Employee))]
public HttpResponseMessage PostEmployee([FromBody]Employee employee)
{
try
{
db.Employees.Add(employee);
db.SaveChanges();
var message = Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.Created, employee);
message.Headers.Location = new Uri(Request.RequestUri + employee.ID.ToString());
return message;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
return Request.CreateErrorResponse(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest, ex);
}
}
}

Thanks
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Sachin Singh5y ago
As your API is accepting parameter of type Employee which has 9 fields , even if you will send 3 field it will map to all and the 3 properties will be mapped to the corresponding properties of Employee class but remaining fields will be null, this is how Model binder works.
Now to send values you can use HttpClient or RestClient as shown below
You have not mentioned the client , whether you are using console app , MVC app, Winforms or what , but the code will be same for all.
       private readonly HttpClient client;
        private readonly string BaseUrl;

[HttpPost]
        public static  int AddEmployees(Employee employee)
        {
    client = new HttpClient();
            BaseUrl = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["url"];
            client.BaseAddress = new Uri(BaseUrl);
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
            try
            {
                if (ModelState.IsValid)
                {

                    var PostEmployee = client.PostAsJsonAsync("api/Employee", employee).Result;
                    if (getEmployee.IsSuccessStatusCode)
                    {
                        return 1;
                    }

                }
                return 0;
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                return 0;
            }
        }

pubic static void Main()
{
Employee emp= new Employee();
emp.Name="Sachin";
emp.DepartmentId=3;
AddEmployees(emp);
Console.WriteLine("Employee Added successfully");
}
where base url is http://localhost:1234/api/Employee , i am considering you have stored it in appsettings of app.config (console app)/web.config(web app)
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