POSTMAN - how to post a POST request by passing an object?

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I'm testing my Rest APIs on Postman, I don't know how to test an API with a POST method which takes an object as a parameter.

Some tutorial say that I should change the type on postman but I can't see this option, my postman control panel is the following(screen):

PostMan.png - Google Drive[^]

What I have tried:

My Rest Api :

C#

[System.Web.Http.HttpPost]
[System.Web.Http.Route("api/controllername/bookAvailability")]
public bool IsAvailable([FromBody] Book book)
{
    return _businessLogic.IsAvailable(book);
}

My API request:

http://localhost:8080/api/controllername/apiName

Where and how I should pass the entity book along with the request?

Posted 3-Dec-20 22:48pm

xhon

Updated 4-Dec-20 0:23am

Richard Deeming

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-03T23:34:00

Solution 1

You are trying to pass the book details in the querystring. You need to pass it in the request body instead.

https://learning.postman.com/docs/sending-requests/requests/#sending-body-data[^]

Posted 3-Dec-20 23:34pm

Richard Deeming

F-ES Sitecore · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-04T00:23:00

Solution 2

Select the "Body" option which will reveal other options. You can select "x-www-form-urlencoded" and enter your values there, like

Id: 28
Title: Harry Potter

or (probably the better option) select "raw" and enter your data as json

{
    Id: 28,
    Title: "Harry Potter"
}

Posted 4-Dec-20 0:23am

F-ES Sitecore