I'm currently working on developing a custom JSONMediaTypeFormatter to send some JSON parameters to a web API endpoint. The goal is to encrypt the data returned from the web API, which requires creating a customized media type formatter.
Within my webapiconfig file, I remove all existing formatters and replace them with the custom formatter I've created:
config.Formatters.Clear();
config.Formatters.Add(new CipherMediaFormatter());
Although I have added relevant headers and types in my custom media type formatter, I am encountering an error when trying to call my web API:
No MediaTypeFormatter is available to read an object of type 'Param' from content with media type 'application/json'.
Here is the code snippet for the media type formatter:
public class CipherMediaFormatter : JsonMediaTypeFormatter
{
private static Type _supportedType = typeof(object);
public CipherMediaFormatter()
{
this.SupportedMediaTypes.Add(new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/octet-stream"));
this.SupportedMediaTypes.Add(new MediaTypeHeaderValue("text/html"));
this.SupportedMediaTypes.Add(new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json"));
}
public override void SetDefaultContentHeaders(Type type, HttpContentHeaders headers, MediaTypeHeaderValue mediaType)
{
base.SetDefaultContentHeaders(type, headers, mediaType);
headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");
}
// Other methods...
}