How to POST XML content to a WEB API using correct JSON structure?

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I am using WEB API to POST the content of a XML file by passing the whole content as a string. However I am getting error and now I am trying to find out how I should pass this XML string? escape slashes, no double quotes, etc....

Here is a small example of my (incorrect) JSON structure:

{"xml":"
<server>
  <networkAdapters>
    <networkAdapter id="3d9c0d9d-d353-4d78-b034-b29f2dd824a0" ipEnabled="true">
      <defaultGateways>
        <defaultGateway address="x.x.x.x" costMetric="20" index="0" />
      </defaultGateways>
      <ipAddresses>
        <ipAddress address="x.x.x.x" subnetMask="255.255.255.192" index="0" />
      </ipAddresses>
      <dnsServers>
        <dnsServer address="x.x.x.x" index="0" />
        <dnsServer address="x.x.x.x" index="1" />
      </dnsServers>
    </networkAdapter>
</server>"}

WEB API code:

        //POST api/RunningValue_Import
        public object PostRunningValue(param_RunningValue inputData)
        {
            try
            {
                #region Retrieve XML string and Create XDocument
                TextReader tr = new StringReader(inputData.xml);
                XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(tr);
                #endregion
...

I am trying to find out what needs to be done before I POST the whole XML content to my WEB API.

Any ideas? Thank you

Why not just pass the XML directly? Why would you want to embed it into JSON ? — Darrel Miller
– Darrel Miller, Commented Dec 31, 2013 at 13:53

Jon Susiak · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-31 09:23:14Z

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You need to escape double quotes in your xml string like so:

<dnsServer address=\"x.x.x.x\" index=\"0\" />

Also your xml is not well formed, you have not included the closing </networkAdapters> tag.

answered Dec 31, 2013 at 9:23

Jon Susiak

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Max Over a year ago

well I escaped all double quotes and same problem. Fixed the last tag but that should not matter, I am just passing a long xml STRING; I will only parse it inside the WEB API. Any more suggestions? thank you!

Max Over a year ago

I think I found the solution here: stackoverflow.com/questions/10428177/…

Darrel Miller · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-31 18:08:55Z

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Why not just drop the JSON wrapper and send the XML directly?

public HttpResponseMessage Post(XElement xElement)
{

...

}

answered Dec 31, 2013 at 18:08

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