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atlMapper
atlMapper

Reputation: 764

MVC 4 routing can't find controller

I can't find the controller route in my new MVC 5 app. I've been following along with a few tutorials and everything appears to be written properly, but when browsing the address in the browser I always get:

No HTTP resource was found that matches the request URI "//localhost:50473/api/tile"

/Controller/ProductController.cs

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Web;
using System.Net;
using coal.Models;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web.Http;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace coal.Controllers
{
    public class ProductController : ApiController
    {
        public void GetAllProducts() { }
        [HttpGet]
        public string Tiles(string urls) { }
    }
}

/App_Start/WebApiConfig.cs

namespace coal
{
    public static class WebApiConfig
    {
        public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
        {
            // Web API configuration and services

            // Web API routes
            config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();

            config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
                name: "Default",
                routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
                defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
            );
            config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
                name: "api",
                routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
                defaults: new { controller = "coal", action = "Index", id = "" }
            );
        }
    }
}

I know I'm missing something, just can't figure out what it is. Any insight would help.

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 17298

Answers (2)

ps2goat
ps2goat

Reputation: 8475

The name of your method is Tiles, but you're trying to hit tile.

public string Tiles(string urls) { }

EDIT: Updated to include the ProductController in the correct route to use:

Also, your route is defined as api/{controller}/{action}, and your controller name is ProductController.

The url you should use is: api/product/tiles, unless you create a route that maps the Product/tiles action to the api/tiles route.

and your route should look something like:

      config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
            name: "Default",
            routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
        );

Upvotes: 6

Ben Aaronson
Ben Aaronson

Reputation: 6975

Your route mapping needs to allow mvc to work out which controller and action method you're looking for. This can be done in two ways, either you can have a {controller} and {action} in your route string, or you can specify a controller and action in the defaults.

So for example you could set up a route like this:

config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
            name: "Default",
            routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
        );

Then the URL to your method would be http://localhost:50473/api/Product/Tiles, matching the controller name "Product" and the action method name "tiles".

Alternatively, maybe you want the URL you specified to match, in which case you could do the following:

config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
            name: "Tiles",
            routeTemplate: "api/tile/",
            defaults: new { controller = "Product", action = "Tiles" }
        );

Upvotes: 0

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