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Converting a C# post request snippet in to PHP

I have the snippet in C# and was looking for some advice converting it to PHP.
Basically, what is happening here, I am building somewhat of a middleware site.
A user submits a form named "Basket" and creates a POST request with XML body to this file, which will parse it, create a new URL with parameters which will afterwards be sent to Shopify cart.
Any help is appreciated.
public class DefaultController : ApiController
{
public IHttpActionResult Post()
{
var query = "";
var domain = "https://shop.shopify.io/cart";
try
{
var content = Request.Content.ReadAsFormDataAsync().Result;
var document = XDocument.Parse(content["basket"]);
if (document.Root != null)
{
var products = document.Root.Elements().Select(x => x.Element("productid").Value + ":" + x.Element("amount").Value);
query = string.Join(",", products);
}
}
catch
{ }
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(query))
return Redirect(domain);
return Redirect($"{domain}?query={query}");
}
}
```

How to post a long dash(—) as part of string data in a http post request to Web API

I have a requirement where I have been posting data to a web API as a json string in a POST request and the post method retrieves the data from the body. This works perfectly for most data, but it does not work when I include a long dash(—) as part of the data in any fields.
I have a Email class with some string fields and I am passing it to the API to save in the database.
Here is how I am implementing the call:
public string PostNewEmailRecord(string APIEndpoint, CampaignWave Email)
{
string StrEmailId = string.Empty;
_endpoint = APIEndpoint;
try
{
string strData = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(Email);
_client.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.ContentType, "application/json");
_client.UploadString(APIEndpoint, _requestType, strData);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
}
return StrEmailId;
}
And here is the post method of Web API:
public void Post([FromBody]CampaignWave email)
{
try
{
using (var transaction = new TransactionScope())
{
CampaignWaveRepository cr = new CampaignWaveRepository();
object objReturnValue = cr.Insert(email);
transaction.Complete();
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
}
finally
{
}
}
When I include a dash the API post method receives a null value as email.
Please help me how I can successfully pass the '—' without any issue. Thanks in advance.

Based on comments it could be caused by encoding:
client.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8

GetAsync azure call no result

Using VS 2017 Community. Azure.
I have Azure setup, I have a blank webapp created just for test purpose.
My actual site is an Angular2 MVC5 site, currently run locally.
The following is the code that should... Contact azure providing secret key(the site is registered in azure Active directory).
From this i get a token i then can use to contact azure api and get list of sites.
WARNING: code is all Sausage code/prototype.
Controller
public ActionResult Index()
{
try
{
MainAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine(e.GetBaseException().Message);
}
return View();
}
static async System.Threading.Tasks.Task MainAsync()
{
string tenantId = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["AzureTenantId"];
string clientId = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["AzureClientId"];
string clientSecret = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["AzureClientSecret"];
string token = await AuthenticationHelpers.AcquireTokenBySPN(tenantId, clientId, clientSecret).ConfigureAwait(false);
using (var client = new HttpClient())
{
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer " + token);
client.BaseAddress = new Uri("https://management.azure.com/");
await MakeARMRequests(client);
}
}
static async System.Threading.Tasks.Task MakeARMRequests(HttpClient client)
{
const string ResourceGroup = "ProtoTSresGrp1";
// Create the resource group
// List the Web Apps and their host names
using (var response = await client.GetAsync(
$"/subscriptions/{Subscription}/resourceGroups/{ResourceGroup}/providers/Microsoft.Web/sites?api-version=2015-08-01"))
{
response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
var json = await response.Content.ReadAsAsync<dynamic>().ConfigureAwait(false);
foreach (var app in json.value)
{
Console.WriteLine(app.name);
foreach (var hostname in app.properties.enabledHostNames)
{
Console.WriteLine(" " + hostname);
}
}
}
}
Controller class uses a static helper class that gets the token from Azure...
public static class AuthenticationHelpers
{
const string ARMResource = "https://management.core.windows.net/";
const string TokenEndpoint = "https://login.windows.net/{0}/oauth2/token";
const string SPNPayload = "resource={0}&client_id={1}&grant_type=client_credentials&client_secret={2}";
public static async Task<string> AcquireTokenBySPN(string tenantId, string clientId, string clientSecret)
{
var payload = String.Format(SPNPayload,
WebUtility.UrlEncode(ARMResource),
WebUtility.UrlEncode(clientId),
WebUtility.UrlEncode(clientSecret));
var body = await HttpPost(tenantId, payload).ConfigureAwait(false);
return body.access_token;
}
static async Task<dynamic> HttpPost(string tenantId, string payload)
{
using (var client = new HttpClient())
{
var address = String.Format(TokenEndpoint, tenantId);
var content = new StringContent(payload, Encoding.UTF8, "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
using (var response = await client.PostAsync(address, content).ConfigureAwait(false))
{
if (!response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
Console.WriteLine("Status: {0}", response.StatusCode);
Console.WriteLine("Content: {0}", await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
}
response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
return await response.Content.ReadAsAsync<dynamic>().ConfigureAwait(false);
}
}
}
}
ISSUE:
Ok so the issue I was faced with was Async Deadlocks in my code. So i looked at this stack post stack post here
I fixed the issues by putting in .ConfigureAwait(false) on most of the await declarations.
Code runs and gets all the way back to the controller with a token etc and runs through the MakeARMRequests(HttpClient client) method, however the json only returns 1 result "{[]}" when i debug and as such ignores the loops.
My question is, is my code the culprit here? or would this point to a configuration setting in azure?

Not sure if this is the issue you are facing now BUT you never wait for a result from your async action in the first method Index in your code. MainAsync().ConfigureAwait(false); will immediately return and continue to the next block while the task MainAsync() will start in the background. The catch handler also does nothing because you dont wait f or a result.
Option 1 (recommended)
public async Task<ActionResult> Index()
{
try
{
await MainAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine(e.GetBaseException().Message);
}
return View();
}
Option 2 if you can't use async/await for some reason
public ActionResult Index()
{
try
{
MainAsync().GetAwaiter().GetResult();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine(e.GetBaseException().Message);
}
return View();
}

The Code looks OK and runs fine, Anyone who could help verify would be good, but one can assume this is OK.
The issue for this was configuration in azure, When you register an app you must set a certain number of Access controls via the subscription.
In this case I set some more specific things for the web api , for now set the app as owner and made reference to service management api.
Probably don't need half the "IAM" added in the subscription to the registered app, I simply went through adding the relevant ones and debugging each time until finally i got the results expected.

Request Body is null in Post request in Web Api

I have a action method like this
[ResponseType(typeof(DiaryDeviceDTO))]
[HttpPost]
[Route("api/Device/Register")]
public async Task<IHttpActionResult> Register(DeviceRegistration deviceRegistration)
{
if (deviceRegistration == null)
{
return BadRequest("Request body is null");
}
DiaryDevice device = await _deviceBl.Register(deviceRegistration.RegistrationCode);
var deviceDto = Mapper.Map<DiaryDevice, DiaryDeviceDTO>(device);
return Ok(deviceDto);
}
When I call this api from PostMan with below request body, I get deviceRegistration object as null. I also set ContentType header as application/json
{
"ApiKey" : "apikey",
"RegistrationCode" : "123",
"ImeiNo" : "12345"
}
Then I try to read the request content as below-
string body = await Request.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
This time I also get body = ""
But when I run my Unit test I get deviceRegistration as I wanted. So what's wrong with my code. Why my code only work for unit testing. I am using Web Api 2.2
Update / Solution
Sorry for asking this question. Actually it was my mistake. I accidentally read the request body inside Application_BeginRequest() method for logging. I move those logging codes inside Application_EndRequest() method and everything becomes ok.

Given what you've shown, this should work for the requests to api/device/register
[ResponseType(typeof(DiaryDeviceDTO))]
[HttpPost]
[Route("api/Device/Register")]
public async Task<IHttpActionResult> Register([FromBody]DeviceRegistration deviceRegistration)
{
if (deviceRegistration == null)
{
return BadRequest("Request body is null");
}
DiaryDevice device = await _deviceBl.Register(deviceRegistration.RegistrationCode);
var deviceDto = Mapper.Map<DiaryDevice, DiaryDeviceDTO>(device);
return Ok(deviceDto);
}
Note the [FromBody] attribute.

Http.post from Angular 2 to ASP.NET ApiController

ASP.NET
[HttpPost]
[Route("apitest")]
public string apitest([FromBody]string str)
{
Console.Writeline(str); // str is always null
return null;
}
Angular 2:
var creds = "str='testst'" ;
var headers = new Headers();
headers.append('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
http.post('http://localhost:18937/apitest', creds, {
headers: headers
})
.map(res => res.json())
.subscribe(
(res2) => {
console.log('subsribe %o', res2)
}
);
I also tried creds = {"str":"test"}; without headers JSON.stringify() etc. without success. How do I Post data to ASP.NET?

var creds = {
str: 'testst'
};
$http.post('http://localhost:18937/apitest', JSON.stringify(creds));
No changes in Web API controller and it should work.

This is probably an issue with the way that ASP.NET and MVC handle data POSTS.
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Index(int? id)
{
Stream req = Request.InputStream;
req.Seek(0, System.IO.SeekOrigin.Begin);
string json = new StreamReader(req).ReadToEnd();
InputClass input = null;
try
{
// assuming JSON.net/Newtonsoft library from http://json.codeplex.com/
input = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<InputClass>(json)
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// Try and handle malformed POST body
return new HttpStatusCodeResult(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest);
}
//do stuff
}
You can refer to my answer here and the referenced links as to a potential cause of the issue. There are quite a few server side web frameworks that inappropriately handle data POSTS and by default doesn't add the data to your request object.
You shouldn't [have to] try and change the behavior of your angular post, and modify headers to pretend your data post is a form post.