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Creating an Action Method for Posting a Question

Creating an Action Method for Posting a Question

Learn to implement a question posting action method.

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Implementing action method for posting a question

Let’s implement an action method for posting a question:

  1. We’ll start with the skeleton method. Add the following after the GetQuestion method:

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[HttpPost]
public ActionResult<QuestionGetSingleResponse>
  PostQuestion(QuestionPostRequest questionPostRequest)
{
    // TODO - call the data repository to save the
      // question
    // TODO - return HTTP status code 201
}

Note that we use an HttpPost attribute to tell ASP.NET that this method handles HTTP POST requests.

Note that the method parameter type for questionPostRequest is a class rather than a primitive type. Earlier, in the “Extending the GetQuestions action method for searching” section, we introduced ourselves to model binding and explained how it maps data from an HTTP request to method parameters. Well, model binding can map data from the HTTP body as well as the query parameters. Model binding can also map ...