Question

I’m building an ASP.NET Web API REST service.

The calls (URLs) I have to process are fixed by another party and have numerous query string parameters.

Rather than have my controller take a dozen parameters, is there any way that I can map the query parameters to an object and pass that through to the controller?

I know that I could access them within the controller through GetQueryNameValuePairs, but I was wondering if there was a way to use data binding in this fashion.

Answer 1

ASP.NET Web API seems to require the use of the [FromUri] when passing a model object to a controller. For example:

public HttpResponseMessage Post([FromUri] MyModel model) { ... }

See this MSDN blog post for more details.