ASP.Net core web API encode string to base64 - asp.net-core

Question

I am new to .Net Core development. I have a model:
public class CoreGoal
{
[Key]
public long CoreGoalId { get; set; }
public string Title { get; set; }
public string Effect { get; set; }
public string Target_Audience { get; set; }
public string Infrastructure { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<Image> Images { get; set; }
public CoreGoal()
{
}
}
And Image model is as following:
public class Image
{
[Key]
public long ImagelId { get; set; }
public string Base64 { get; set; }
[ForeignKey("CoreGoalId")]
public long CoreGoalId { get; set; }
public Image()
{
}
}
I am using Repository pattern. My repository:
public interface ICoreGoalRepository
{
void CreateCoreGoal(CoreGoal coreGoal);
}
public class CoreGoalRepository : ICoreGoalRepository
{
private readonly WebAPIDataContext _db;
public CoreGoalRepository(WebAPIDataContext db)
{
_db = db;
}
//Find specific
public CoreGoal Find(long key)
{
return _db.CoreGoals.FirstOrDefault(t => t.CoreGoalId == key);
}
//Add new
public void CreateCoreGoal(CoreGoal coreGoal)
{
_db.CoreGoals.Add(coreGoal);
_db.SaveChanges();
}
}
And controller:
[Route("api/[controller]")]
public class CoreGoalController : Controller
{
private readonly ICoreGoalRepository _coreGoalRepository;
//Controller
public CoreGoalController(ICoreGoalRepository coreGoalRepository) {
_coreGoalRepository = coreGoalRepository;
}
[HttpGet("{id}", Name = "GetCoreGoal")]
public IActionResult GetById(long id)
{
var item = _coreGoalRepository.Find(id);
if (item == null)
{
return NotFound();
}
return new ObjectResult(item);
}
//Create
[HttpPost]
public IActionResult Create([FromBody] CoreGoal item)
{
if (item == null)
{
return BadRequest();
}
_coreGoalRepository.CreateCoreGoal(item);
return CreatedAtRoute("GetCoreGoal", new { id = item.CoreGoalId }, item);
}
}
On POST request for CoreGoal- While creating a new CoreGoal, I would like to convert Image model's Base64 attribute from string to byte[]. I found this (https://adrientorris.github.io/aspnet-core/manage-base64-encoding.html) blogpost, but I am not sure where Am I supposed to write this piece of code.
Can someone help me?

Answer 1

Initially you should chage you database model to save you binary image to db (also, it's still not good idea, but let leave it for a now):
public class Image
{
[Key]
public long ImagelId { get; set; }
[NotMapped]
public string Base64 { get; set; }
public byte[] Binary {get; set;}
[ForeignKey("CoreGoalId")]
public long CoreGoalId { get; set; }
public Image()
{
}
}
next you just should convert your image inside controller:
[HttpPost]
public IActionResult Create([FromBody] CoreGoal item)
{
if (item == null)
{
return BadRequest();
}
item.Binary = Convert.FromBase64String(item.Base64);
_coreGoalRepository.CreateCoreGoal(item);
return CreatedAtRoute("GetCoreGoal", new { id = item.CoreGoalId }, item);
}
BTW:you code still not good. It's not necessary to use Repository pattern with EF core (https://www.thereformedprogrammer.net/is-the-repository-pattern-useful-with-entity-framework-core/). And you should introduce two model layers: public layer and model layer. You shouldn't expose EF Core contract to outside.