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I struggle quite a complicated scenario to which I cannot find the answer.

I am trying to create a REST service with ASP.NET WebAPI which serves as a wrapper for file operations on a server. Therefore I am trying build an API like System.IO.File and System.IO.Directory. With System.IO.File comes the method Create which opens a Stream to the newly created file. The stream is writable so that it can be used to write content to the new file.

For my purpose I need to achieve this behaviour for my service as well. So the response should return a writable stream to the client and the this way the client can write data to the server.

I tried using StreamContent but it cannot be used with a stream that is only writable. It says "Reading is not supported on this stream." along with throwing a NotSupportedOperationException.

Is there any way I can pass a writable stream back to my client?

Thanks in advance.

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  • I am not sure if this is what you looking for, but check this will help ? Commented Aug 21, 2017 at 14:20
  • Thanks for the answer, but I don't think so. It just produces an OutputStream which cannot be written by the client. Commented Aug 22, 2017 at 6:31
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