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Asked: 2026-06-08T12:14:45+00:00

I have a pretty standard route like this, {controller}/{action}/{id} , where id is optional.

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I have a pretty standard route like this, {controller}/{action}/{id}, where id is optional.

Consider these three PUT actions:

public void DoSimpleStuff(int id) {/*DoingStuff*/ }
public void DoMoreStuff(StronglyTypedObject sto) {/*DoingStuff*/ }
public void DoExtraStuff(int id, StronglyTypedObject sto) {/*DoingExtraStuff*/ }

DoSimpleStuff works out of the box.

To make DoMoreStuff work I needed to disable the model binder. So I implemented a custom IRequestContentReadPolicy returning RequestContentReadKind.AsSingleObject.

However, that doesn’t fix DoExtraStuff.

So my question is, what can I do to fix DoExtraStuff? Shouldn’t the route understand that only the last parameter comes from the content, and hence pass that type to my serializer?

PS: I realize they’ll change how this work, but I need a solution for this now. Creative answers appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    In asp.net mvc 4 beta this was hard to do. In fact I had to work around it as I didn’t find a way (if there was one) to achieve this.

    However, in asp.net mvc 4 rc you simply apply the [FromBody] and [FromUrl] attributes to your action parameters, and you’re good to go. Nice! 🙂

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