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    copied!<p>trying to call ASP.NET 4 Web API from iOS using RestKit but the serialised json object doesn't get recognised on the server command. Can anyone help?</p> <p>obj C class;</p> <pre><code> #import "NoddyModel.h" @synthesize messageId; @synthesize message; @end </code></pre> <p>(the above are NSStrings)</p> <p>equiv C# from the mvc services;</p> <pre><code>using Core.MessageDocuments; namespace WebApi.Models { [DataContract] public class NoddysModel : List&lt;NoddyModel&gt; { [DataMember(IsRequired = true)] public long NumberOfMessages { get { return Count; } } } [DataContract] public class NoddyModel { public NoddyModel(string MessageId, string Message) { MessageId = MessageId; Message = Message; } [DataMember] public string MessageId { get; set; } [DataMember] public string Message { get; set; } } } </code></pre> <p>and the mvc command;</p> <pre><code>// POST api/Noddy [HttpPost] public MessagesPostResponse Post(NoddyModel noddy) { int count = 999; try { count = noddy.Message.Length + 9000; } catch (Exception e) { FileStream traceLog = new FileStream("C:\\logs\\Traces.svclog", FileMode.Append); TextWriterTraceListener myListener = new TextWriterTraceListener(traceLog); Trace.Listeners.Add(myListener); myListener.WriteLine("Exception in POST NoddyModel calc count = " + e.Message + " response = " + HttpContext.Current.Request.Params.ToString()); Trace.Flush(); myListener.Flush(); traceLog.Close(); return new MessagesPostResponse(false, 0); } try { FileStream traceLog = new FileStream("C:\\logs\\Traces.svclog", FileMode.Append); TextWriterTraceListener myListener = new TextWriterTraceListener(traceLog); Trace.Listeners.Add(myListener); myListener.WriteLine("Sending trace information : Noddy = " + noddy); Trace.Flush(); myListener.Flush(); traceLog.Close(); return new MessagesPostResponse(true, count); } catch (Exception e) { FileStream traceLog = new FileStream("C:\\logs\\Traces.svclog", FileMode.Append); TextWriterTraceListener myListener = new TextWriterTraceListener(traceLog); Trace.Listeners.Add(myListener); myListener.WriteLine("Exception in POST NoddyModel = " + e.Message); Trace.Flush(); myListener.Flush(); traceLog.Close(); return new MessagesPostResponse(false, 0); } } </code></pre> <p>and the Obj C function;</p> <pre><code>RKURL *baseURL = [RKURL URLWithString: @"http://ServerX/cirrusdev/api"]; RKObjectManager *objectManager = [RKObjectManager objectManagerWithBaseURLString: @"http://ServerX/cirrusdev/api"]; objectManager.client.baseURL = baseURL; [objectManager setSerializationMIMEType:RKMIMETypeJSON]; RKObjectRouter *dynrouter = [RKObjectRouter new]; [dynrouter routeClass:[NoddyModel class] toResourcePath:@"/messages" forMethod:RKRequestMethodPOST]; objectManager.router = dynrouter; RKObjectMapping* pmsg = [RKObjectMapping mappingForClass:[NSMutableDictionary class]]; [pmsg mapKeyPath: @"MessageId" toAttribute:@"messageId" ]; [pmsg mapKeyPath: @"Message" toAttribute:@"message" ]; RKObjectMapping* pmsgSerializeMapping = [pmsg inverseMapping]; [objectManager.mappingProvider setSerializationMapping:pmsgSerializeMapping forClass:[NoddyModel class]]; NoddyModel *msg = [[NoddyModel alloc]init]; msg.messageId =@"abc999"; msg.message = @"Hello Cirrus"; [objectManager postObject:msg delegate:self]; </code></pre> <p>and the log from RestKit;</p> <pre class="lang-none prettyprint-override"><code>&gt; 2012-10-31 15:28:26.851 ELOI[74400:c07] D &gt; restkit.network:RKClient.m:437 Reachability to host '0.0.0.0' &gt; determined for client &lt;RKClient: 0x76dda50&gt;, unsuspending queue &gt; &lt;RKRequestQueue: 0x76ddb90 name=(null) suspended=YES requestCount=1 &gt; loadingCount=0/5&gt; 2012-10-31 15:28:26.851 ELOI[74400:c07] D &gt; restkit.network:RKRequest.m:437 Sending asynchronous POST request to &gt; URL `http://ServerX/cirrusdev/api/messages`. 2012-10-31 15:28:26.852 &gt; ELOI[74400:c07] D restkit.network:RKObjectLoader.m:374 POST or PUT &gt; request for source object &lt;NoddyModel: 0x7696ba0&gt;, serializing to MIME &gt; Type application/json for transport... 2012-10-31 15:28:26.853 &gt; ELOI[74400:c07] T restkit.network:RKRequest.m:399 Prepared POST &gt; URLRequest '&lt;NSMutableURLRequest &gt; http://ServerX/cirrusdev/api/messages&gt;'. HTTP Headers: { &gt; Accept = "application/json"; &gt; "Content-Length" = 47; &gt; "Content-Type" = "application/json"; }. HTTP Body: {"MessageId":"abc999","Message":"Hello Cirrus"}. 2012-10-31 &gt; 15:28:26.855 ELOI[74400:c07] D restkit.network:RKResponse.m:198 &gt; Proceeding with request to &lt;NSURLRequest &gt; http://ServerX/cirrusdev/api/messages&gt; 2012-10-31 15:28:31.224 &gt; ELOI[74400:c07] D restkit.network:RKResponse.m:219 NSHTTPURLResponse &gt; Status Code: 200 2012-10-31 15:28:31.224 ELOI[74400:c07] D &gt; restkit.network:RKResponse.m:220 Headers: { &gt; "Cache-Control" = "no-cache"; &gt; "Content-Length" = 74; &gt; "Content-Type" = "application/json; charset=utf-8"; &gt; Date = "Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:28:30 GMT"; &gt; Expires = "-1"; &gt; Pragma = "no-cache"; &gt; Server = "Microsoft-IIS/7.5"; &gt; "X-AspNet-Version" = "4.0.30319"; &gt; "X-Powered-By" = "ASP.NET"; } 2012-10-31 15:28:31.225 ELOI[74400:c07] T restkit.network:RKResponse.m:231 Read response body: &gt; {"Successful":false,"Message":"We have received 0 &gt; message(s)","Data":null} </code></pre> <p>PS I manually edited the server name so if its different please ignore</p>
 

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