AlineeApove
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I'm trying to post an ko.observable array as part of of an object, all that data reaches the server ok except for the array which is not null but has a count of zero.This is on the client side\[code\] function submitAsync() { var viewModel = constructModel(); setTimeout(function () { $.ajax({ url: '/Article/Index', type: 'POST', data: JSON.stringify({ viewModel: viewModel }), contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8', }) },2000); console.log(viewModel);}function constructModel(){ var articleViewModel = {}; articleViewModel.Authors = ko.toJSON(appViewModel.authors); articleViewModel.ArticleData = http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15463589/{}; articleViewModel.ArticleData.Title = $("#ArticleData_Title").text(); articleViewModel.ArticleData.CorespondingAuthor = $("#ArticleData_CorespondingAuthor").text(); articleViewModel.ArticleData.Keywords = $("#ArticleData_Keywords").text(); articleViewModel.ArticleContent = {}; articleViewModel.ArticleContent.Abstract = $("#ArticleContent_Abstract").text(); articleViewModel.ArticleContent.FullText = ArticleContent(); return articleViewModel;}\[/code\]My viewModel\[code\]public class ArticleViewModel{ public ArticleData ArticleData { get; set; } public ArticleContent ArticleContent { get; set; } public ICollection<Author> Authors { get; set; }}\[/code\]My controller action viewModel.Authors is not null but has a count of 0\[code\][HttpPost] public ActionResult Index(ArticleViewModel viewModel) { if (ModelState.IsValid) { mergeViewModelToCurrentArticle(viewModel); _documentPath = GenerateDocument(_currentArticle); return RedirectToAction("Success"); } return View(); }\[/code\]The ko array outputed from javascript\[code\]Authors: "[{"id":1,"firstName":"User first name","lastName":"user last name","email":"[email protected]","phone":"xxxxx","address":"Dunarii Nr.3","fullName":"user full name"}]"\[/code\]My Author model\[code\] public class Author{ [Key] public int Id { get; set; } public int UserId{get;set;} [StringLength(40)] [Required] [DisplayName("First Name")] public string FirstName { get; set; } [StringLength(40)] [Required] [DisplayName("Last Name")] public string LastName { get; set; } [StringLength(40)] [Required] [DisplayName("E-mail")] [DataType(DataType.EmailAddress)] public string Email { get; set; } [DisplayName("Phone Number")] [Required] [DataType(DataType.PhoneNumber)] public string Phone { get; set; } [DisplayName("Address")] [StringLength(200)] public string Address { get; set; } public static implicit operator ArticleGenerator.Author(Author author) { var generatorAuthor = new ArticleGenerator.Author(); generatorAuthor.Address = author.Address; generatorAuthor.Email = author.Email; generatorAuthor.FirstName = author.FirstName; generatorAuthor.LastName = author.LastName; generatorAuthor.Telephone = author.Phone; return generatorAuthor; }}\[/code\]