Requirement: Need to send complex in http get request using Angular and get the JSON in Web API
Frontend
First prepare URLSearchParams object and add key value pairs.
Send the RequestOptions to Angular http service.
final url format will be
{{API-URL}}/api/folders/370/documents?filter={ 'startDate':'08/01/2005', 'endDate':'08/31/2005','currentPage': '2', 'pageLimit': '50'}
import {Http, Headers, RequestOptions, Response, ResponseContentType, URLSearchParams} from "@angular/http"; | |
@Injectable() | |
export class DocumentService | |
{ | |
constructor(private http: Http) | |
{ | |
} | |
loadDocuments(folderId: number, currentPage: number) : Observable<Response> | |
{ | |
let headers = new Headers({ | |
'Content-Type' : 'application/json', | |
'Accept': 'application/json' | |
}); | |
let requestOptions = new RequestOptions({headers}); | |
requestOptions.params = this.getFilterData(currentPage); | |
let path = "folders/"+folderId+"/documents"; | |
return this.http.get(appConstants.apiUrl+ path, requestOptions ); | |
} | |
private getFilterData(currentPage: number) : any | |
{ | |
let params: URLSearchParams = new URLSearchParams(); | |
let filterValue = JSON.stringify( {currentPage: currentPage, pageLimit: 50 }); | |
params.set('filter', filterValue); | |
return params; | |
} | |
} |
On the API Side
Got the query parameter and deserialize to ViewModel
Your server side ViewModel matches your JSON object sent in the request.
var filterData = Request.GetQueryNameValuePairs();
if (filterData == null || !filterData.Any())
{
throw new ArgumentException("Invalid request: search parameters are missing.");
}
var viewModel = JsonConvert.DeserializeObjectfilterData.First().Value);