Multiple HttpPost method in MVC4 - asp.net-mvc-4

Question

In my web application I have a form where user can send SMS to any phone. The action is declared something like this:
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Index(Massages massages)
{
// called the webservice
return View(massages);
}
This works fine.
There is web service which sends the SMS message to the client (i.e. their phone). In this web service call we also have to provide a PostBackUrl, so we could see the response which client has provided.
This response is coming in form of JSON and HttpPost.
I am puzzled how declare such function.
//It is wrong but It might be something like this.
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult ReplyBack(JSON reply)
{
return View(reply);
}

Answer 1

So you are close, you should just define the structure of the "reply" argument as a C# class and ASP.NET will parse the JSON postback.
So do
public class JSONRequest
{
property MessageId as Int
property Sender AS String
}
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult ReplyBack(JSONRequest request)
{
//query database with request.MessageId
return View(reply);
}
I changed the name of your argument to request because, unless I am not following your question correctly, you need to call another webservice to get replies. So it does not make sense to make a request to ReplyBack with an JSON argument called reply, the response is the reply in this case, so ReplyBack gets the request arguments and builds the reply as a response. Also I would rename your ReplyBack method to GetReply as it should make more sense to other developers.