Accepting body with generic type

Question

I'm creating a web API that accepts a custom object. This works when someone does a POST request in JSON format. But now I have someone asking if they can post in XML, from my understanding this shouldn't be an issue. However, the body is always null in my Controller.

public IHttpActionResult SomeMethod([FromBody] StoreModel<object> obj) {
    // ... Code
}

The model looks like this:

public class StoreModel<T> {
    public T MetaData { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

Swagger suggests the following JSON input:

{
  "metaData": {},
  "name": "string"
}

but for XML it says this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<StoreModel[Object]>
  <!-- invalid XML -->
  <name>string</name>
</StoreModel[Object]>

I tried posting with variations of the swagger suggestion, but nothing seems to be accepted

So I would think some additional configuration is needed?

Answer 1

Have a look at these 2 URLs:

• Issue with sending XML to Web Api via http Post request. Here notice at:

([FromBody]XElement xml)

• How to provide example for XML parameter in swagger