MVC Post Request - Max no. of objects in IEnumerable binding?

Question

I have an Controller Action as follows for posting Form Data (Just testing binding atm, comments left in to give you an idea of things I've tried):

[HttpPost]
//[RequestFormLimits(BufferBodyLengthLimit = 2097152000)]
//[RequestSizeLimit(209715200)]
public async Task ProcessF([FromForm] IEnumerable bills)
{
    return Json("Success");
}

This Post Action is called via AJAX with the following:

$.ajax({
        url: "@Url.Action("ProcessF","Billing")",
        type: "POST",
        //contentType: "application/json",
        dataType: "json",
        data: { "bills": promiseArray }
    }).done(function () {
        location.href = "/F/Manage/"
    })

The data binds to the IEnumerable, but only if the submitted collection is of 256 objects or less. Any more than this and the binding returns null with 0 entries.

I thought this may be a maxAllowedContentLength issue, but after padding the data, it seems to be the number of objects in the submitted array that causes it to return null.

Before I go back to the start and refactor it to avoid this limitation, is there a setting controlling this value? IEnumerable of length 256 seems a bit too much of a coincidence, especially when the ContentLength doesn't cause the problem (i.e. 256 elements @ 36Kb is accepted, but over 256 elements @ 35Kb is rejected)

The application is .Net Core 3.1 running locally on IIS express (Debugging).

user_4965609 · Answer

I really need to open my eyes more, somehow I missed this in the call stack when debugging , under this.Request.Form:

"Form value count limit 1024 exceeded"

All it required was adding [RequestFormLimits(ValueCountLimit = xxx)] annotation to the Action method:

[HttpPost]
[RequestFormLimits(ValueCountLimit = 10000)]
public async Task ProcessF([FromForm] List bills)
    {
        return Json("Success");
    }

So 256 objects of 4 Key Value Pairs = 1024 Values which is the max allowed by default. I need to improve my googling, as this is news to me haha.

MVC Post Request - Max no. of objects in IEnumerable<T> binding?

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