.Net Core Web API - uploading multiple files. Postman returns empty Json.

[TheBugSlayer]

Have written code to upload multiple files through one zip file and it works. In Postman I am able to download the zip file. However, I am trying to implement an alternative solution where the files are added to a multipart content then to the response. The code works...but in Postman I receive an OK status but the body of the response is empty.


Please help me figure out what I am missing or doing wrong. Thank you.


C# CODE

[HttpGet("/results2/{resultcount}")]
public ActionResult GetFiles(int results)
{
var fi = ReadFiles(results);

if (fi.Count() > 0)
{
var content = new MultipartContent();


var objectContent = new StringContent(Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(fi.Select(f => f.FullName)));
content.Add(objectContent);

foreach (FileInfo f in fi)
{
var fileContent = new StreamContent(new FileStream(f.FullName, FileMode.Open));
fileContent.Headers.ContentType = System.Net.Http.Headers.MediaTypeHeaderValue.Parse("text/plain");
fileContent.Headers.ContentDisposition = new System.Net.Http.Headers.ContentDispositionHeaderValue("attachment");
content.Add(fileContent);
}

var response = new HttpResponseMessage();
response.Content = content;
return Ok(response);
}
else
return BadRequest("Number of files must be greater than zero (0)!");
}


RESPONSE

{
"version": {
"major": 1,
"minor": 1,
"build": -1,
"revision": -1,
"majorRevision": -1,
"minorRevision": -1
},
"content": {
"headers": [
{
"Key": "Content-Type",
"Value": [
"multipart/mixed; boundary=\"686d1a49-9fd9-4342-90e6-c35f5b9274b6\""
]
}
]
},
"statusCode": 200,
"reasonPhrase": "OK",
"headers": [],
"trailingHeaders": [],
"requestMessage": null,
"isSuccessStatusCode": true
}





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