When I have a return type of "string" in my WebAPI controller, it SuccessStatusCodereturns "OK" in my MVC controller, but when the return type has a model named "USER", I get this internal server Error. Here is my code:
WebAPI:
public class UserController : ApiController
{
OnlineCenterEntities db = new OnlineCenterEntities();
public USER GetUserInfo(string userName, string domain)
{
USER userInfo = (from u in db.USERs
where u.USER_NAME.ToUpper() == userName.ToUpper() && u.LDAP_NAME.ToUpper() == domain.ToUpper()
select u).FirstOrDefault();
return userInfo;
}
}
MVC controller calling WebAPI:
public class HomeController : Controller
{
HttpClient client;
string url = "http://localhost:61566/api/user/";
public HomeController()
{
client = new HttpClient();
client.BaseAddress = new Uri(url);
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new System.Net.Http.Headers.MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
}
public async Task<ActionResult> Index(string userName, string domain)
{
string GetUserInfoURL = String.Format("GetUserInfo?userName={0}&domain={1}", userName, domain);
HttpResponseMessage responseMessage = await client.GetAsync(url+GetUserInfoURL);
if (responseMessage.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
var responseData = responseMessage.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
var userInfor = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<USER>(responseData);
}
return View();
}
USER Model:
public partial class USER
{
public int USER_ID { get; set; }
public string USER_NAME { get; set; }
public string FIRST_NAME { get; set; }
public string LAST_NAME { get; set; }
public string LDAP_NAME { get; set; }
public string EMAIL { get; set; }
}
In my WebAPI, if I change the return type from USERto string(and, of course, change the type of the returned variable to some string (userInfo.FIRST_NAME)), I get SuccessStatusCodeas 'OK', but from this code I get Internal Server Errorwith StatusCode: 500(whatever that means) ) I tried to insert a breakpoint at all possible times, and I know that api returns the result. I just don't understand why the next line
HttpResponseMessage responseMessage = await client.GetAsync(url+GetUserInfoURL);
InternalServerError, USER, USER .
, userName domain, , !