Passing a list of object in ServiceStack

Question

I have created a customer service using ServiceStack but i am not able to pass a list of object from this method.

Customer Service -

public class EntityService : Service
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Request for entity information list
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="request"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public object Any(List<CustomerRequest> request)
        {

        }

}

Request DTO -

  [Route("/api/V1/GetCustomerDetails", Verbs = "POST", Notes = "")]   
    public class CustomerRequest : IReturn<List<CustomerResponse>>
        {
           [ApiMember(Name = "GetCustomerDetails", Description = "GetCustomerDetails", ParameterType = "body", DataType = "List<BaseRequest>", IsRequired = true)]
          List<BaseRequest> _baseRequest {get;set;}
        }

public class BaseRequest
{
            public string CustId { get; set; }

            public string CustName { get; set; }    

            public string CustAddress { get; set; }
}

Could you please let me know what is the correct way to pass list of object in ServiceStack Post operation.

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 17 '16 at 11:51

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Each Service in ServiceStack needs to accept a single named concrete Request DTO Type. You can look at the AutoBatched Requests for how to send multiple requests.

E.g, if you want to a Service to accept a List of Types you can inherit List<T>, e.g:

public class CustomerRequests : List<CustomerRequest>{}

public class EntityService : Service
{
    public object Any(CustomerRequests request)
    {

    }
}

answered Aug 17 '16 at 11:51

mythz

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I have updated my question with a BaseRequest class.So could please confirm if this is the correct way to execute? – Dev Aug 17 '16 at 13:23
@intelliCoder No all properties should be public and you shouldn't be exposing names starting with `_` in your public API as having a `_baseRequest` property means your Service is expecting JSON like `{"_baseRequest":[{"CustId":1},{"CustId":2}]}` which is ugly. – mythz Aug 17 '16 at 13:28
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@intelliCoder have a look at [Designing APIs section](https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/wiki#documentation) in the ServiceStack docs, it walks through examples of creating Services with ServiceStack. – mythz Aug 17 '16 at 13:32
@mythz If I have a third party service sending an array to my API (not wrapped in an object), is there any way to accept that on my end with ServiceStack? – JMK Aug 07 '17 at 12:38
@JMK ? This answer shows how, have your Request DTO inherit a List. – mythz Aug 07 '17 at 12:40

Passing a list of object in ServiceStack

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