Disable default validation in Asp.Net WebAPI

Question

I want to completely disable model validation for WebAPI controllers. I tried several ways to do this for MVC, but it seems like the WebAPI is not getting these methods.

In my case:

• Custom formatter creates and populates an object
• default check performed
• Object transferred to controller
• My code starts to work

I am trying to completely remove step 2.

Answer 1

Try the following:

config.Services.Clear(typeof(ModelValidatorProvider)); 

It should completely disable checking both URI parameters and body parameters.