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Ievgen
Ievgen

Reputation: 8086

How to configure routes to have default Get and named Get method in WebApiConfig?

I want to create the following API:

Controller methods: 

public string Get(int id)
        {
            return "value";
        }

public string GetFoo(int id)
        {
            return "value";
        }

WebApiConfig: 

config.Routes.MapHttpRoute("DefaultApiWithId", "Api/{controller}/{id}", new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }, new { id = @"\d+" });
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute("DefaultApiWithAction", "Api/{controller}/{action}/{id}", new { id = RouteParameter.Optional });

With such config I can access /api/verifications/getfoo/1 but the /api/verifications/1 cause an exception: Multiple actions were found that match the request.

How can I configure routes to have default Get and named Get method?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 210

Answers (2)

Sergei B.
Sergei B.

Reputation: 3227

Here you're ignoring standard naming convention for action names. Usually Get method is bound to request with no parameters to return all available items. As for me, it's better to define different certain name for each action, like GetOneKindOfThings and GetOtherKindOfThings to make your API more self descriptive.

Anyway you could use the following trick to let framework understand your routes correctly:

public string Get(int defaultId)
        {
            return "value";
        }

public string GetFoo(int id)
        {
            return "value";
        }

config.Routes.MapHttpRoute("DefaultApiWithId", "Api/{controller}/{defaultId}", new { defaultId = RouteParameter.Optional }, new { id = @"\d+" });
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute("DefaultApiWithAction", "Api/{controller}/{action}/{id}", new { id = RouteParameter.Optional });

Upvotes: 0

mcNux
mcNux

Reputation: 1501

I think you just need to specify the action for the first route. e.g:

config.Routes.MapHttpRoute("DefaultApiWithId", "Api/{controller}/{id}", new { action = "Get", id = RouteParameter.Optional }, new { id = @"\d+" });

Upvotes: 2

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