How to read XML from ASP.NET Web API?

Question

I have a Web API that would read XML and pass it to the appropriate model for processing.

How can I receive that XML that is coming in? Which datatype should I use?

Do I use StreamReader, StreamContent or XmlDocument or other?

Answer 1

Any incoming content can be read as a stream of bytes and then processed as required.

public async Task<HttpResponseMessage> Get() {

   var stream = await Request.Content.ReadAsStreamAsync();

   var xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
   xmlDocument.Load(stream);

   // Process XML document

   return new HttpResponseMessage();
}