I am doing an Asp.Net MVC 4 project and am looking to an internal request (like a proxy) to our api service.
This is what the index method looks like in my controller. I'm stuck at the PostAsync part.
[HttpPost]
public async Task<ActionResult> Index(FormCollection body){
HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();
httpClient.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://myapi.com");
// posts to http://myapi.com/users
var response = await httpClient.PostAsync("users", body);
if(response.isSuccessStatusCode) return Json(new {
status = true,
url = response.Content.Url
});
}
I want to pass my "application/x-form-urlencoded" "body" content to the PostAsync POST method. However, I get an error reading "body is not of type HttpContent".
I can't cast or convert. What now?
Let me know what I'm doing incorrectly here.
Erik
I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to do, but possibly converting the FormCollection
to a dictionary and using the FormUrlEncodedContent
class is what you're looking for.
e.g.:
var response = await httpClient.PostAsync("users",
new FormUrlEncodedContent(
body.
AllKeys.ToDictionary(
k => k, v => body[v])));