httppostedfilebase receive null in Web API when requested from Postman - asp.net-web-api

Question

I was trying to send a post request to my API controller. It receives all input except file input. I tried few solutions but nothing is working. I created same form in MVC and it worked but doesn't work in API where am I lacking.
My Blogger Controller / Create action
public HttpResponseMessage Create(Blogger objBlogger)
{
}
My Blogger Model
public class Blogger
{
public string Blogger_Id { get; set; }
[Required]
public string BloggerName { get; set; }
[Required]
public string BloggerUserName { get; set; }
[Required]
[RegularExpression(#"^([\w\.\-]+)#([\w\-]+)((\.(\w){2,3})+)$")]
public string BloggerEmail { get; set; }
[Required]
[RegularExpression("^[0-9]*$")]
public string BloggerMobileNumber { get; set; }
public string BloggerProfilePicture { get; set; }
[Required]
public string BloggerPassword { get; set; }
public HttpPostedFileBase UploadProfilePicture { get; set; }
}
My Postman Code
POST /api/Blogger/Create HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:3694
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW
Content-Type: application/json
Cache-Control: no-cache
Postman-Token: 8097929a-bc93-42a4-8bc8-0e9ea98a279e
------WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="BloggerName"
DemoName
------WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="BloggerUserName"
DemoUserName
------WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="BloggerEmail"
DemoEmail#gmail.com
------WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="BloggerMobileNumber"
9999999999
------WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="UploadProfilePicture"; filename="asset.JPG"
Content-Type: image/jpeg
------WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="BloggerPassword"
DemoPassword
------WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW--

Answer 1

For Web API use something like this:
[HttpPost]
public async Task<HttpResponseMessage> Create()
{
if (!Request.Content.IsMimeMultipartContent())
{
this.Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.UnsupportedMediaType);
}
string root = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/temp");
var provider = new MultipartFormDataStreamProvider(root);
var result = await Request.Content.ReadAsMultipartAsync(provider);
// Files
foreach (MultipartFileData file in provider.FileData)
{
Debug.WriteLine(file.Headers.ContentDisposition.FileName);
Debug.WriteLine("File path: " + file.LocalFileName);
}
// Form data
foreach (var key in provider.FormData.AllKeys)
{
foreach (var val in provider.FormData.GetValues(key))
{
// your Blogger obj
...
}
}
...
}