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I am creating a REST Web service in C# and need to take a list of item (e.g. activity list).

How can we take an array as input in Rest Web Service method? What would be final URI that will be created for such method?

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  • Thanks for pointing this... unfortunately except one question none of were answered up to my satisfaction. Commented Nov 14, 2011 at 9:24
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For what I know (I developed ReST services in Java with the Jersey library), the final URI is not affected by the type of the parameters you pass to the service. So the URI would be something like http://asite.com/service/activitylist.

Then for the implementation (in Java, maybe you could try to look for a REST implementation library in C#), in the client I would put my parameters (any type, arrays too) in a Form object (Jersey) and send it with my request. Then in my service I would access my parameters using the annotation @FormParam and finally process them normally in my service.

Hope it helps.

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I want to show the items in the URI and it would be a Get request in my case. Can it be like asite.com/service/activitylist?type=1&type=2?
@Lalit I think the POST sample in this example could give you hints on how to add data to your request: developer.yahoo.com/dotnet/howto-rest_cs.html (I know it's a POST but I think it still is interesting regarding to your question)
It seems that this type of operation i.e. sending list of items in the GET Method, is NOT allowed. It has to be accomplished via POST method only.

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