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On my form I am using ajax to submit the form to my API controller method for creating new objects. In my API controller, I am using SimpleInjector for Dependency Injection but for some reason when that method is hit, my object isn't being added/saved to the database table. I am not receiving any runtime errors and it debugs perfectly.

Here is my code:

// POST: api/MedicInfoesApi

[ResponseType(typeof(MedicInfo))]

public IHttpActionResult PostMedicInfo(MedicInfo medicInfo)

{

    if (!ModelState.IsValid)

    {

        return BadRequest(ModelState);

    }



    // Create empty Employee Object to get info of person being submitted via IBM

    Employee emp = new Employee();



    //check if IBM that user is submitting exists

    if (!EmployeeData.IsValidIBM(medicInfo.MedicIbm))

    {

        ModelState.AddModelError("", "This IBM does not exist!");

    }

    // Check if any existing IBM's match what the user is trying to submit... if none then save to database

    else if (_dbContext.GainAccess().MedicInfoes.Any(x => x.MedicIbm.Equals(medicInfo.MedicIbm, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase)))

    {

        ModelState.AddModelError("", "This person already exists!");

    }



    if (!ModelState.IsValid)

    {

        return BadRequest(ModelState);

    }

    else

    {

        // Set empty Employee object with Data of person

        emp = EmployeeData.GetEmployee(medicInfo.MedicIbm);

        medicInfo.Active = true;

        _dbContext.GainAccess().MedicInfoes.Add(medicInfo); // no errors but nothing is added

        _dbContext.GainAccess().SaveChanges(); // no errors but nothing saves

    }



    return CreatedAtRoute("DefaultApi", new { id = medicInfo.Id }, medicInfo);

}

I have a suspicion that GainAccess() may be returning a new instance of your context every time it is called, which could explain the behavior.

_dbContext.GainAccess().MedicInfoes.Add(medicInfo); // This instance is never saved

_dbContext.GainAccess().SaveChanges(); // This instance has nothing to save

You are calling your Add and Save on completely different instances of your context. So those method calls are independent of each other.

In the first instance you add a record but never save to the database. you then create another new instance and then tell it to save changes, but it has no changes to save because it is a new instance with nothing done to it.

Try using the same instance for the operation.

medicInfo.Active = true;

var context = _dbContext.GainAccess(); //what ever it returns.

context.MedicInfoes.Add(medicInfo);

context.SaveChanges();