first pass at persisting POST'd data

Author: jaredcnance

JsonApiDotNetCore/Controllers/JsonApiController.cs

@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ public ObjectResult Get(string id)
 
     public ObjectResult Post(object entity)
     {
+      _resourceRepository.Add(entity);
+      _resourceRepository.SaveChanges();
       return new CreatedResult(JsonApiContext.HttpContext.Request.Path, entity);
     }
 

JsonApiDotNetCore/Data/ResourceRepository.cs

@@ -40,11 +40,10 @@ private object GetRelated(string id, RelationalRoute relationalRoute)
       return relationalRoute.BaseModelType.GetProperties().FirstOrDefault(pi => pi.Name.ToCamelCase() == relationalRoute.RelationshipName.ToCamelCase()).GetValue(entity);
     }
 
-
     private IQueryable GetDbSetFromContext(string propName)
     {
       var dbContext = _context.DbContext;
-      return (IQueryable)dbContext.GetType().GetProperties().FirstOrDefault(pI => pI.Name.ToCamelCase() == propName)?.GetValue(dbContext, null);
+      return (IQueryable)dbContext.GetType().GetProperties().FirstOrDefault(pI => pI.Name.ToProperCase() == propName.ToProperCase())?.GetValue(dbContext, null);
     }
 
     private object GetEntityById(Type modelType, string id, string includedRelationship)
@@ -66,6 +65,15 @@ private object GetEntityById(Type modelType, string id, string includedRelations
       return (dbSet as IEnumerable<dynamic>).SingleOrDefault(x => x.Id.ToString() == id);
     }
 
+    public void Add(object entity)
+    {
+      ((DbSet<object>)GetDbSetFromContext(_context.Route.BaseRouteDefinition.ContextPropertyName)).Add(entity);
+    }
+
+    public int SaveChanges()
+    {
+      return ((DbContext)_context.DbContext).SaveChanges();
+    }
 
   }
 }

JsonApiDotNetCore/JsonApi/DocumentBuilder.cs

@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ private IJsonApiResource EntityToJsonApiResource(object entity)
       var resource = entity as IJsonApiResource;
       if (resource != null) return resource;
 
-      var attributes = TypeDescriptor.GetAttributes(_resource);
+      var attributes = TypeDescriptor.GetAttributes(entity);
       var type = ((JsonApiResourceAttribute)attributes[typeof(JsonApiResourceAttribute)]).JsonApiResourceType;
-      return (IJsonApiResource)_context.Configuration.ResourceMapper.Map(_resource, _resource.GetType(), type);
+      return (IJsonApiResource)_context.Configuration.ResourceMapper.Map(entity, entity.GetType(), type);
     }
 
     private JsonApiDatum ResourceToJsonApiDatum(IJsonApiResource resource)

JsonApiDotNetCore/Routing/RouteBuilder.cs

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ public Route BuildFromRequest()
 
     private bool PathStringIsEmpty(PathString pathString)
     {
-      return pathString.HasValue ? string.IsNullOrEmpty(pathString.ToString().TrimStart('/')) : false;
+      return pathString.HasValue ? string.IsNullOrEmpty(pathString.ToString().TrimStart('/')) : true;
     }
 
     private PathString SetBaseRouteDefinition()

JsonApiDotNetCore/Routing/Router.cs

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ private ObjectResult ActivateControllerMethod(JsonApiController controller)
         case "GET":
           return string.IsNullOrEmpty(route.ResourceId) ? controller.Get() : controller.Get(route.ResourceId);
         case "POST":
-          return controller.Post(new JsonApiDeserializer(_jsonApiContext).GetEntity());
+          return controller.Post(new JsonApiDeserializer(_jsonApiContext).GetEntityFromRequest());
         case "PUT":
           return controller.Put(route.ResourceId, null);
         case "DELETE":

JsonApiDotNetCore/Services/JsonApiDeserializer.cs

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 using JsonApiDotNetCore.Configuration;
 using JsonApiDotNetCore.JsonApi;
 using Newtonsoft.Json;
+using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
 
 namespace JsonApiDotNetCore.Services
 {
@@ -20,7 +21,7 @@ public object GetEntityFromRequest()
       var body = GetRequestBody(_context.HttpContext.Request.Body);
       var document = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<JsonApiDocument>(body);
       var entity = Activator.CreateInstance(_context.GetEntityType());
-      return ModelAccessor.SetValuesOnModelInstance(entity, ((JsonApiDatum) document.Data).Attributes);
+      return ModelAccessor.SetValuesOnModelInstance(entity, ((JsonApiDatum)((JObject)document.Data).ToObject(typeof(JsonApiDatum))).Attributes);
     }
 
     private static string GetRequestBody(Stream body)