Passing complex DTO in Postman

[tbednarz]

I try write API tests against my ServiceStack server. I have enabled the plugins as described in the documentation. I have to pass a complex DTO in my GET requests, but on the server they are always NULL.

[Route("/v1/sysop/loglevel", "GET", Summary = "Gets the currently active loglevel for a specific instance of the BediSoft Cloud " +
                                              "Administration server.")]
public class GetLogLevel : IReturn<string>
{
	[ApiMember(Name = "RequestMeta", Description = "BediSoft Cloud request meta data object.",
		ParameterType = "path", DataType = "RequestMetaDto", IsRequired = false)]
	public RequestMetaDto RequestMeta { get; set; }
}

The RequestMetaDto is defined as

public class RequestMetaDto
{
	public string CallingRequestId { get; set; }
	public RequestSource Source { get; set; }
        // etc....
}

Just after importing the collections into postman it looks like this:

So I tried to add JSON values for the RequestMetaDto like so:

But no luck, on the server the object is always NULL:

How do I need to pass a complex parameter DTO in Postman so that ServiceStack can correctly serialize it?

[mythz]

You can pass Complex Types in the QueryString or FormData using JSV which for your RequestMeta property would look like:

KEY    RequestMeta
VALUE  {CallingRequestId:"blah"}

[tbednarz]

Got it, works as expected now. Thanks for the hint!