HTTPPOST method to get record?

manikandan r

5y734

Can we use HTTP POST method to get records?

If so what are the benefits and which scenarios?

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Jignesh Kumar5y ago
Accepted answer
Hi Maniknandan,

Yes, You can use. Lets take scenarios you need to pass many parameter and based on that you need to filter your response from your method that time you can use Post method to get desiger result.

Note: In HTTPGET you can not pass body so many scenarios where you need to pass many paramter so thats not good to pass in querystring which we are using in GET method. In this case we have to go for HTTPPOST.
manikandan r5y ago
Thanks All!!
Jignesh Kumar5y ago
Hi ManinkNandan,

Please find example for post method with return result.

ProductSearchModel.cs
Public class ProductSearchModel
{
   public int Id { get; set; }

   public string Name { get; set; }

public decimal PriceFrom { get; set; }
   public decimal PriceTo { get; set; }
}
[HTTPPOST]
Public IHttpActionResult FilterProduct(ProductSearchModel searchModel)
    {
        var result = _context.Product.AsQueryable();

        if (searchModel != null)
        {
            if (searchModel.Id.HasValue)
                result = result.Where(x => x.Id == searchModel.Id);
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(searchModel.Name))
                result = result.Where(x => x.Title.Contains(searchModel.Name));
            if (searchModel.PriceFrom.HasValue)
                result = result.Where(x => x.Price >= searchModel.PriceFrom);
            if (searchModel.PriceTo.HasValue)
                result = result.Where(x => x.Price <= searchModel.PriceTo);
        }

        return Ok(result.ToList());
    }
Satya Karki5y ago
Hi, we can use POST method while retriving data from database also. Let say we need to get data filtering with several parameters that time we use POST method and pass the parameters to get record.

In below link, you can find real case scenario where we can use POST method to Get Record.
https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/filter-records-based-on/
manikandan r5y ago
Hi, Can you share any code sample for this scenario?
Salman Beg5y ago
You can check this link for more info, https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/313715/rest-can-i-use-post-request-to-read-data https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19637459/rest-api-using-post-instead-of-get