Use body stream parameter in WebApi controller's action

You have to create custom attribute and custom parameter binding.

Here is my implementation of FromContent attribute and ContentParameterBinding binding:

public class ContentParameterBinding : FormatterParameterBinding
{
    private struct AsyncVoid{}
    public ContentParameterBinding(HttpParameterDescriptor descriptor) : base(descriptor, descriptor.Configuration.Formatters,
               descriptor.Configuration.Services.GetBodyModelValidator())
    {

    }

    public override Task ExecuteBindingAsync(ModelMetadataProvider metadataProvider,
                                                HttpActionContext actionContext,
                                                CancellationToken cancellationToken)
    {

    }

    public override Task ExecuteBindingAsync(ModelMetadataProvider metadataProvider,
                                                HttpActionContext actionContext,
                                                CancellationToken cancellationToken)
    {
        var binding = actionContext.ActionDescriptor.ActionBinding;

        if (binding.ParameterBindings.Length > 1 ||
            actionContext.Request.Method == HttpMethod.Get)
        {
            var taskSource = new TaskCompletionSource<AsyncVoid>();
            taskSource.SetResult(default(AsyncVoid));
            return taskSource.Task as Task;
        }

        var type = binding.ParameterBindings[0].Descriptor.ParameterType;

        if (type == typeof(HttpContent))
        {
            SetValue(actionContext, actionContext.Request.Content);
            var tcs = new TaskCompletionSource<object>();
            tcs.SetResult(actionContext.Request.Content);
            return tcs.Task;
        }
        if (type == typeof(Stream))
        {
            return actionContext.Request.Content
            .ReadAsStreamAsync()
            .ContinueWith((task) =>
            {
                SetValue(actionContext, task.Result);
            });
        }

        throw new InvalidOperationException("Only HttpContent and Stream are supported for [FromContent] parameters");
    }
}

[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Class | AttributeTargets.Parameter, AllowMultiple = false, Inherited = true)]
public sealed class FromContentAttribute : ParameterBindingAttribute
{
    public override HttpParameterBinding GetBinding(HttpParameterDescriptor parameter)
    {
        if (parameter == null)
            throw new ArgumentException("Invalid parameter");

        return new ContentParameterBinding(parameter);
    }
}

Now you can

    public async Task<string> Post([FromContent]Stream contentStream)
    {
        using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(contentStream, Encoding.UTF8))
        {
            var str = reader.ReadToEnd();
            Console.WriteLine(str);
        }
        return "OK";
    }

However it doesn't help with swagger :(