MediaTypeFormatter

Question

web API, how we use it, can you please help me with example.

Sahil Sharma · Answer

In context of WebAPI or RESTful Services to be precise, Media represents the piece of data you want to send to your service with your Http Request. MediaType represents the type of media you are sending to the service such as text, xml or json. By default, WebAPI supports only xml and json type of media with HttpRequests. What if the client wants to send data in csv format? To support such types, we make use of MediaTypeFormatter class to create a Custom Formatter to handle incoming data with such unsupported formats. This is the simple example to create and use it: CsvTypeFormatter.cs public class CsvTypeFormatter : MediaTypeFormatter { public CsvTypeFormatter () { this .SupportedMediaTypes.Add( new MediaTypeHeaderValue( "text/csv" )); } //Add additional logic } Afterwards, register it in Global.asaxfig file: GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.Formatters.Add ( new CSVMediaTypeFormatter( new QueryStringMapping( "format" , "csv" , "text/csv" )) ); More info here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/web-api/overview/formats-and-model-binding/media-formatters

Gajanan Chavhan · Answer

In context with Asp.net Web API, we need to serialize the request data and also needs to deserialize response data and media type formatters are classes responsible for serializing request/response data. For different type of format there are different media type formatter classes: e.g : JsonMediaTypeFormatter : used to handle JSON format XmlMediaTypeFormatter : used to handle XML format

Faisal Pathan · Answer

Please refer this link http://www.tutorialsteacher.com/webapi/web-api-formatters

Sanghamitra Mohanty · Answer

Thank you so much