POSTing entities to WebAPI in batch?

Question

Do I need to send individual entity updates to WebAPI, or can I POST an array of them and send them all at once? It seems like a dumb question, but I can't find anything that says one way or another.

Answer 1

Brad has a blog post that talks about implementing batching support in Web API.

Also, Web API samples project on codeplex has a sample for doing batching in web API hosted on asp.net.

Answer 2

It seems like WEB API 2 has support for this

From the site (Web API Request Batching):

Request batching is a useful way of minimizing the number of messages that are passed between the client and the server. This reduces network traffic and provides a smoother, less chatty user interface. This feature will enable Web API users to batch multiple HTTP requests and send them as a single HTTP request.

There are a number of samples for different scenarios on this page.

https://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Web+API+Request+Batching