ASP.NET WebAPI model binding not working

Question

In a project I completed several months I had this in the controller:

 public HttpResponseMessage Post(PersonModel model)
 {
 }

I could send the ajax post with the members inside a json object, and WebAPI would seamlessly populate each property within the model.

However, I've just started a new project and am doing the same but the model inside the controller is now just null. The binding appears to be broken. Has something changed on ASP.NET WebAPI that prevents this from happening?

This is my ajax request:

$.ajax({ url: "api/auth", type: "post", data: { username: "jon", password: "123" },dataType: "json", contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8" });

sohtimsso1970 · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-05 21:09:35Z

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Your ajax request content body has the format of application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
username=jon&password=123, but you have set content-type to application/json. Because of this, Json.NET serializer failed to deserialize the request body content.

You could do one of the following:

Change the content-type to be application/x-www-form-urlencoded instead of explicitly setting the contentType to be application/json
Continue to use application/json but Json stringify your data:
data: JSON.stringify({ username: "jon", password: "123" })

Hope this helps.

edited Feb 5, 2013 at 21:09

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answered Dec 14, 2012 at 20:36

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