Date format changes to 'mm/dd/yyyy' when posting data to web api method RSS

• • Reply
  

  yrshaikh

  Member

  3 Points

  8 Posts

  Date format changes to 'mm/dd/yyyy' when posting data to web api method

  Oct 22, 2012 07:31 AM|LINK

  I am using ASP.NET MVC 4 with Web API.

  I want to be able to download a csv file on click on a button.

  Below is my jquery call to the api 'exportfruit'

  function downloadFile(){
  var data = {
      StartDate: this.model.get('StartDate'),
      Name: this.model.get('Name')
  };
  
  var form = document.createElement('form');
  form.action = 'api/fruitapi/exportFruit';
  form.method = 'POST';
  form.style.display = 'none';
  for (i in data) {
      if (data[i] != "") {
          var inputElement = document.createElement('textarea');
          inputElement.name = i;
          inputElement.value = data[i];
          form.appendChild(inputElement);
      }
  }
  document.body.appendChild(form);
  form.submit();
  }

  
  
  

  and my web api action is as below

  [ActionName("ExportFruit")]
  public HttpResponseMessage PostExportFruit(SomeModel model)
  {
      // for now i am just testing the value returned from model.
      string csv = "some data from db";
      HttpResponseMessage result = new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK);
      result.Content = new StringContent(csv);
      //a text file is actually an octet-stream (pdf, etc)
      result.Content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/octet-stream");
      //we used attachment to force download
      result.Content.Headers.ContentDisposition = new ContentDispositionHeaderValue("attachment");
      result.Content.Headers.ContentDisposition.FileName = "testfile.csv";
      return result;    
  }

  
  
  

  now the problem I am facing is that I am passing date as 'dd/mm/yyyy' but in the web api action it converts date into 'mm/dd/yyyy'

  So for example,

  if I have a date like

  • 1/2/2012 this is converted to 2/1/2012
  • if 22/10/2012 (todays date) is converted to 01/01/0001

  How do I fix this ?

  I had similar problem when passing json data which I fixed by using this But I have no idea on how to go about on this one.

  Please help me on this, as there is hardly any content available on internet for this.

  • Edited by yrshaikh on Oct 22, 2012 07:32 AM
• • Reply
  

  dhanekula

  Member

  101 Points

  37 Posts

  Re: Date format changes to 'mm/dd/yyyy' when posting data to web api method

  Nov 06, 2012 07:36 PM|LINK

  Hi,

  How you define date proprety in SomeModel is it string or Datetime.

  Sorry I didn't get your problem exactly do you have problem with searilization(Posting Data to service) or deserialization(Getting data from service) .

  
  

  Dhanekula