Is it possible to bind a list of complex json objects to a C# object using an ajax GET request?

Question

public class Person
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

public ActionResult Test (List<Person> persons)
{
    ...
}

Javascript:

var person = { Name: "P1", Id: 1 };
var persons = [];
persons.push(person);
persons.push(person);
var json = JSON.stringify(persons);
$.ajax({
    url: '@Url.Action("Test")',
    type: 'GET',
    dataType: 'json',
    data: json,
    contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
});

I am trying to send a list of person objects to the controller using a GET request. The problem is that the persons list is always null. When I make a POST request everything works fine.

Is it possible to bind a list of complex json objects to a C# object using an ajax GET request?

Answer 1

Is it possible to bind a list of complex json objects to a C# object using an ajax GET request?

No, it isn't. Remember that there's a limit in the query string you could send, so having complex objects in a GET request is probably not something you should be doing anyway. The GET verb is normally used for retrieving data from simple things like an ID and a couple of other query string parameters, not by sending complex objects.