Passing Two Dates to WebApi

Question

User1122355199 posted

Hello everyone and thanks for your help in advance.  I need to develop a WebApi that will generate a report based on a date range that will be passed from a page via an ajax call.  The page will have a user input BeginningDate and EndingDate.  I'm really not sure the best way to go about this, especially given the difficulties passing dates to a WebApi via ajax.  Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

User1967761114 posted

Hi kmcnet,

According to your description, when you want to pass datetime parameter, you just make sure to pass a string that such like date format to the Web API server.

 See the following code:

(1) Web API (server):

public class CustomerController : ApiController
{ 
    [HttpPost]
    public string GetList(DateTime startTime, DateTime endTime)
    {
        return "StartTime=" + startTime.ToString("yyyy/MM/dd") + " EndTime=" + endTime.ToString("yyyy/MM/dd");
    }
}

(2) Ajax call (client):

//you also could use such as 2017/01/01 13:00:00,2017-01-01 14:00:00 and so on,that's all ok when the string just like the date format.
$.ajax({
    url: "http://localhost:61072/api/customer/getlist?startTime=2017-01-01&endTime=2017/06/08",
    type: "POST",
    success: function (result) {
        alert(result);
    }
})

However, I just show one of way to pass parameter for you, there has a lot ways to pass parameter, you could refer to the following link:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/web-api/overview/formats-and-model-binding/parameter-binding-in-aspnet-web-api

If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact me any time.

Best Regards

Even

Answer 2

User1122355199 posted

Thanks for the help.