server/AyaNova/Controllers/PickListController.cs

@@ -50,16 +50,10 @@ namespace AyaNova.Api.Controllers
         /// "zon some" is NOT valid (missing TAGS indicator), "..zone some re" is NOT valid (too many strings)
         /// Note that this list is capped automatically to return no more than 100 results
         /// </summary>
-        /// <param name="ayaType">The AyaType object type to select from</param>
-        /// <param name="query">The query to filter the returned list by. Query text as provided will be case sensitively matched to all templated fields. 
-        /// Independantely of this, if an addition space separated string that begins with two consecutive periods is encountered that will be considered a separate match to the TAGS collection of each object
-        /// So a tag query might be entered as "..zon some" which would match all tags LIKE 'zon' and template fields LIKE 'some'</param>
-        /// <param name="inactive">Include inactive objects in the returned list </param>
-        /// <param name="preIds">Return only specific items (for pre-selected items on forms) </param>
-        /// <param name="variant">Some lists optionally take a variant string, e.g. User type "inside","outside" etc </param>
+        /// <param name="pickListParams">Parameters for pick list see api docs for details </param>
         /// <returns>Filtered list</returns>
-        [HttpGet("list")]
-        public async Task<IActionResult> GetList([FromQuery] AyaType ayaType, [FromQuery] string query, [FromQuery] bool inactive, [FromQuery] long[] preIds, [FromQuery] string variant)
+        [HttpPost("list")]
+        public async Task<IActionResult> PostList([FromBody] PickListParams pickListParams)
         {
             if (serverState.IsClosed)
                 return StatusCode(503, new ApiErrorResponse(serverState.ApiErrorCode, null, serverState.Reason));
@@ -69,7 +63,7 @@ namespace AyaNova.Api.Controllers
 
             //NOTE: these sequence of calls are a little different than other objects due to the nature of rights and stuff with picklists being different
 
-            var PickList = PickListFactory.GetAyaPickList(ayaType);
+            var PickList = PickListFactory.GetAyaPickList(pickListParams.AyaType);
 
             //was the name not found as a pick list?
             if (PickList == null)
@@ -82,8 +76,8 @@ namespace AyaNova.Api.Controllers
             //Instantiate the business object handler
             PickListBiz biz = PickListBiz.GetBiz(ct, HttpContext);
 
-          
-            var o = await biz.GetPickListAsync(PickList, query, inactive, preIds, variant, log);
+
+            var o = await biz.GetPickListAsync(PickList, pickListParams.Query, pickListParams.Inactive, pickListParams.PreselectedIds.ToArray(), pickListParams.ListVariant, log);
             if (o == null)
                 return BadRequest(new ApiErrorResponse(biz.Errors));
             else

server/AyaNova/PickList/PickListParams.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using AyaNova.Biz;
+
+namespace AyaNova.PickList
+{
+
+/*
+     /// <param name="params">The AyaType object type to select from</param>
+        /// <param name="query">The query to filter the returned list by. Query text as provided will be case sensitively matched to all templated fields. 
+        /// Independantely of this, if an addition space separated string that begins with two consecutive periods is encountered that will be considered a separate match to the TAGS collection of each object
+        /// So a tag query might be entered as "..zon some" which would match all tags LIKE 'zon' and template fields LIKE 'some'</param>
+        /// <param name="inactive">Include inactive objects in the returned list </param>
+        /// <param name="preIds">Return only specific items (for pre-selected items on forms) </param>
+        /// <param name="variant">Some lists optionally take a variant string, e.g. User type "inside","outside" etc </param>
+*/
+    public sealed class PickListParams
+    {
+
+        [FromBody]
+        public AyaType AyaType { get; set; }
+
+        [FromBody]
+        public string Query { get; set; }
+
+        [FromBody]
+        public bool Inactive { get; set; }
+
+        [FromBody]
+        public List<long> PreselectedIds { get; set; }
+
+        [FromBody]
+        public string ListVariant { get; set; }
+    }
+
+}