I'm converting from the WCF Web API to the new ASP.NET MVC 4 Web API. I have a UsersController, and I want to have a method named Authenticate. I see examples of how to do GetAll, GetOne, Post, and Delete, however what if I want to add extra methods into these services? For instance, my UsersService should have a method called Authenticate where they pass in a username and password, however it doesn't work.
public class UsersController : BaseApiController
{
public string GetAll()
{
return "getall!";
}
public string Get(int id)
{
return "get 1! " + id;
}
public User GetAuthenticate(string userName, string password, string applicationName)
{
LogWriter.Write(String.Format("Received authenticate request for username {0} and password {1} and application {2}",
userName, password, applicationName));
//check if valid leapfrog login.
var decodedUsername = userName.Replace("%40", "#");
var encodedPassword = password.Length > 0 ? Utility.HashString(password) : String.Empty;
var leapFrogUsers = LeapFrogUserData.FindAll(decodedUsername, encodedPassword);
if (leapFrogUsers.Count > 0)
{
return new User
{
Id = (uint)leapFrogUsers[0].Id,
Guid = leapFrogUsers[0].Guid
};
}
else
throw new HttpResponseException("Invalid login credentials");
}
}
I can browse to myapi/api/users/ and it will call GetAll and I can browse to myapi/api/users/1 and it will call Get, however if I call myapi/api/users/authenticate?username={0}&password={1} then it will call Get (NOT Authenticate) and error:
The parameters dictionary contains a null entry for parameter 'id' of non-nullable type 'System.Int32' for method 'System.String Get(Int32)' in 'Navtrak.Services.WCF.NavtrakAPI.Controllers.UsersController'. An optional parameter must be a reference type, a nullable type, or be declared as an optional parameter.
How can I call custom method names such as Authenticate?
By default the route configuration follows RESTFul conventions meaning that it will accept only the Get, Post, Put and Delete action names (look at the route in global.asax => by default it doesn't allow you to specify any action name => it uses the HTTP verb to dispatch). So when you send a GET request to /api/users/authenticate you are basically calling the Get(int id) action and passing id=authenticate which obviously crashes because your Get action expects an integer.
If you want to have different action names than the standard ones you could modify your route definition in global.asax:
Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { action = "get", id = RouteParameter.Optional }
);
Now you can navigate to /api/users/getauthenticate to authenticate the user.
This is the best method I have come up with so far to incorporate extra GET methods while supporting the normal REST methods as well. Add the following routes to your WebApiConfig:
routes.MapHttpRoute("DefaultApiWithId", "Api/{controller}/{id}", new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }, new { id = #"\d+" });
routes.MapHttpRoute("DefaultApiWithAction", "Api/{controller}/{action}");
routes.MapHttpRoute("DefaultApiGet", "Api/{controller}", new { action = "Get" }, new { httpMethod = new HttpMethodConstraint(HttpMethod.Get) });
routes.MapHttpRoute("DefaultApiPost", "Api/{controller}", new {action = "Post"}, new {httpMethod = new HttpMethodConstraint(HttpMethod.Post)});
I verified this solution with the test class below. I was able to successfully hit each method in my controller below:
public class TestController : ApiController
{
public string Get()
{
return string.Empty;
}
public string Get(int id)
{
return string.Empty;
}
public string GetAll()
{
return string.Empty;
}
public void Post([FromBody]string value)
{
}
public void Put(int id, [FromBody]string value)
{
}
public void Delete(int id)
{
}
}
I verified that it supports the following requests:
GET /Test
GET /Test/1
GET /Test/GetAll
POST /Test
PUT /Test/1
DELETE /Test/1
Note That if your extra GET actions do not begin with 'Get' you may want to add an HttpGet attribute to the method.
I am days into the MVC4 world.
For what its worth, I have a SitesAPIController, and I needed a custom method, that could be called like:
http://localhost:9000/api/SitesAPI/Disposition/0
With different values for the last parameter to get record with different dispositions.
What Finally worked for me was:
The method in the SitesAPIController:
// GET api/SitesAPI/Disposition/1
[ActionName("Disposition")]
[HttpGet]
public Site Disposition(int disposition)
{
Site site = db.Sites.Where(s => s.Disposition == disposition).First();
return site;
}
And this in the WebApiConfig.cs
// this was already there
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
);
// this i added
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "Action",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}/{disposition}"
);
For as long as I was naming the {disposition} as {id} i was encountering:
{
"Message": "No HTTP resource was found that matches the request URI 'http://localhost:9000/api/SitesAPI/Disposition/0'.",
"MessageDetail": "No action was found on the controller 'SitesAPI' that matches the request."
}
When I renamed it to {disposition} it started working. So apparently the parameter name is matched with the value in the placeholder.
Feel free to edit this answer to make it more accurate/explanatory.
Web Api by default expects URL in the form of api/{controller}/{id}, to override this default routing. you can set routing with any of below two ways.
First option:
Add below route registration in WebApiConfig.cs
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "CustomApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
);
Decorate your action method with HttpGet and parameters as below
[HttpGet]
public HttpResponseMessage ReadMyData(string param1,
string param2, string param3)
{
// your code here
}
for calling above method url will be like below
http://localhost:[yourport]/api/MyData/ReadMyData?param1=value1¶m2=value2¶m3=value3
Second option
Add route prefix to Controller class and Decorate your action method with HttpGet as below.
In this case no need change any WebApiConfig.cs. It can have default routing.
[RoutePrefix("api/{controller}/{action}")]
public class MyDataController : ApiController
{
[HttpGet]
public HttpResponseMessage ReadMyData(string param1,
string param2, string param3)
{
// your code here
}
}
for calling above method url will be like below
http://localhost:[yourport]/api/MyData/ReadMyData?param1=value1¶m2=value2¶m3=value3
In case you're using ASP.NET 5 with ASP.NET MVC 6, most of these answers simply won't work because you'll normally let MVC create the appropriate route collection for you (using the default RESTful conventions), meaning that you won't find any Routes.MapRoute() call to edit at will.
The ConfigureServices() method invoked by the Startup.cs file will register MVC with the Dependency Injection framework built into ASP.NET 5: that way, when you call ApplicationBuilder.UseMvc() later in that class, the MVC framework will automatically add these default routes to your app. We can take a look of what happens behind the hood by looking at the UseMvc() method implementation within the framework source code:
public static IApplicationBuilder UseMvc(
[NotNull] this IApplicationBuilder app,
[NotNull] Action<IRouteBuilder> configureRoutes)
{
// Verify if AddMvc was done before calling UseMvc
// We use the MvcMarkerService to make sure if all the services were added.
MvcServicesHelper.ThrowIfMvcNotRegistered(app.ApplicationServices);
var routes = new RouteBuilder
{
DefaultHandler = new MvcRouteHandler(),
ServiceProvider = app.ApplicationServices
};
configureRoutes(routes);
// Adding the attribute route comes after running the user-code because
// we want to respect any changes to the DefaultHandler.
routes.Routes.Insert(0, AttributeRouting.CreateAttributeMegaRoute(
routes.DefaultHandler,
app.ApplicationServices));
return app.UseRouter(routes.Build());
}
The good thing about this is that the framework now handles all the hard work, iterating through all the Controller's Actions and setting up their default routes, thus saving you some redundant work.
The bad thing is, there's little or no documentation about how you could add your own routes. Luckily enough, you can easily do that by using either a Convention-Based and/or an Attribute-Based approach (aka Attribute Routing).
Convention-Based
In your Startup.cs class, replace this:
app.UseMvc();
with this:
app.UseMvc(routes =>
{
// Route Sample A
routes.MapRoute(
name: "RouteSampleA",
template: "MyOwnGet",
defaults: new { controller = "Items", action = "Get" }
);
// Route Sample B
routes.MapRoute(
name: "RouteSampleB",
template: "MyOwnPost",
defaults: new { controller = "Items", action = "Post" }
);
});
Attribute-Based
A great thing about MVC6 is that you can also define routes on a per-controller basis by decorating either the Controller class and/or the Action methods with the appropriate RouteAttribute and/or HttpGet / HttpPost template parameters, such as the following:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc;
namespace MyNamespace.Controllers
{
[Route("api/[controller]")]
public class ItemsController : Controller
{
// GET: api/items
[HttpGet()]
public IEnumerable<string> Get()
{
return GetLatestItems();
}
// GET: api/items/5
[HttpGet("{num}")]
public IEnumerable<string> Get(int num)
{
return GetLatestItems(5);
}
// GET: api/items/GetLatestItems
[HttpGet("GetLatestItems")]
public IEnumerable<string> GetLatestItems()
{
return GetLatestItems(5);
}
// GET api/items/GetLatestItems/5
[HttpGet("GetLatestItems/{num}")]
public IEnumerable<string> GetLatestItems(int num)
{
return new string[] { "test", "test2" };
}
// POST: /api/items/PostSomething
[HttpPost("PostSomething")]
public IActionResult Post([FromBody]string someData)
{
return Content("OK, got it!");
}
}
}
This controller will handle the following requests:
[GET] api/items
[GET] api/items/5
[GET] api/items/GetLatestItems
[GET] api/items/GetLatestItems/5
[POST] api/items/PostSomething
Also notice that if you use the two approaches togheter, Attribute-based routes (when defined) would override Convention-based ones, and both of them would override the default routes defined by UseMvc().
For more info, you can also read the following post on my blog.
See this article for a longer discussion of named actions. It also shows that you can use the [HttpGet] attribute instead of prefixing the action name with "get".
http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/web-api-routing-and-actions/routing-in-aspnet-web-api
Web APi 2 and later versions support a new type of routing, called attribute routing. As the name implies, attribute routing uses attributes to define routes. Attribute routing gives you more control over the URIs in your web API. For example, you can easily create URIs that describe hierarchies of resources.
For example:
[Route("customers/{customerId}/orders")]
public IEnumerable<Order> GetOrdersByCustomer(int customerId) { ... }
Will perfect and you don't need any extra code for example in WebApiConfig.cs.
Just you have to be sure web api routing is enabled or not in WebApiConfig.cs , if not you can activate like below:
// Web API routes
config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();
You don't have to do something more or change something in WebApiConfig.cs. For more details you can have a look this article.
Just modify your WebAPIConfig.cs as bellow
Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { action = "get", id = RouteParameter.Optional });
Then implement your API as bellow
// GET: api/Controller_Name/Show/1
[ActionName("Show")]
[HttpGet]
public EventPlanner Id(int id){}
Related
I keep getting this error when I try to have 2 "Get" methods
Multiple actions were found that match the request: webapi
I been looking around at the other similar questions about this on stack but I don't get it.
I have 2 different names and using the "HttpGet" attribute
[HttpGet]
public HttpResponseMessage Summary(MyVm vm)
{
return null;
}
[HttpGet]
public HttpResponseMessage FullDetails()
{
return null;
}
Your route map is probably something like this in WebApiConfig.cs:
routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "API Default",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional });
But in order to have multiple actions with the same http method you need to provide webapi with more information via the route like so:
routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "API Default",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional });
Notice that the routeTemplate now includes an action. Lots more info here: http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/web-api-routing-and-actions/routing-in-aspnet-web-api
Update:
Alright, now that I think I understand what you are after here is another take at this:
Perhaps you don't need the action url parameter and should describe the contents that you are after in another way. Since you are saying that the methods are returning data from the same entity then just let the parameters do the describing for you.
For example your two methods could be turned into:
public HttpResponseMessage Get()
{
return null;
}
public HttpResponseMessage Get(MyVm vm)
{
return null;
}
What kind of data are you passing in the MyVm object? If you are able to just pass variables through the URI, I would suggest going that route. Otherwise, you'll need to send the object in the body of the request and that isn't very HTTP of you when doing a GET (it works though, just use [FromBody] infront of MyVm).
Hopefully this illustrates that you can have multiple GET methods in a single controller without using the action name or even the [HttpGet] attribute.
Update as of Web API 2.
With this API config in your WebApiConfig.cs file:
public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
{
//// Web API routes
config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes(); //Don't miss this
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = System.Web.Http.RouteParameter.Optional }
);
}
You can route our controller like this:
[Route("api/ControllerName/Summary")]
[HttpGet]
public HttpResponseMessage Summary(MyVm vm)
{
return null;
}
[Route("api/ControllerName/FullDetails")]
[HttpGet]
public HttpResponseMessage FullDetails()
{
return null;
}
Where ControllerName is the name of your controller (without "controller"). This will allow you to get each action with the route detailed above.
For further reading: http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/web-api-routing-and-actions/attribute-routing-in-web-api-2
In Web API (by default) methods are chosen based on a combination of HTTP method and route values.
MyVm looks like a complex object, read by formatter from the body so you have two identical methods in terms of route data (since neither of them has any parameters from the route) - which makes it impossible for the dispatcher (IHttpActionSelector) to match the appropriate one.
You need to differ them by either querystring or route parameter to resolve ambiguity.
After a lot of searching the web and trying to find the most suitable form for routing map
if have found the following
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute("DefaultApiWithId", "Api/{controller}/{id}", new { id =RouteParameter.Optional }, new { id = #"\d+" });
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute("DefaultApiWithAction", "Api/{controller}/{action}");
These mapping applying to both action name mapping and basic http convention (GET,POST,PUT,DELETE)
This is the answer for everyone who knows everything is correct and has checked 50 times.....
Make sure you are not repeatedly looking at RouteConfig.cs.
The file you want to edit is named WebApiConfig.cs
Also, it should probably look exactly like this:
using System.Web.Http;
namespace My.Epic.Website
{
public static class WebApiConfig
{
public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
{
config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();
// api/Country/WithStates
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "ControllerAndActionOnly",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}",
defaults: new { },
constraints: new { action = #"^[a-zA-Z]+([\s][a-zA-Z]+)*$" });
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultActionApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
);
}
}
}
I could have saved myself about 3 hours.
It might be possible that your webmethods are being resolved to the same url. Have a look at the following link :-
http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/web-api-routing-and-actions/routing-in-aspnet-web-api
So, you might need to add your methodname to your routing table.
Without using actions the options would be:
move one of the methods to a different controller, so that they don't clash.
use just one method that takes the param, and if it's null call the other method from your code.
This solution worked for me.
Please place Route2 first in WebApiConfig. Also Add HttpGet and HttpPost before each method and include controller name and method name in the url.
WebApiConfig =>
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "MapByAction",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}/{id}", defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional });
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional });
Controller =>
public class ValuesController : ApiController
{
[HttpPost]
public string GetCustomer([FromBody] RequestModel req)
{
return "Customer";
}
[HttpPost]
public string GetCustomerList([FromBody] RequestModel req)
{
return "Customer List";
}
}
Url =>
http://localhost:7050/api/Values/GetCustomer
http://localhost:7050/api/Values/GetCustomerList
I found that that when I have two Get methods, one parameterless and one with a complex type as a parameter that I got the same error. I solved this by adding a dummy parameter of type int, named Id, as my first parameter, followed by my complex type parameter. I then added the complex type parameter to the route template. The following worked for me.
First get:
public IEnumerable<SearchItem> Get()
{
...
}
Second get:
public IEnumerable<SearchItem> Get(int id, [FromUri] List<string> layers)
{
...
}
WebApiConfig:
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}/{layers}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional, layers RouteParameter.Optional }
);
It is possible due to using MVC controller instead of Web API controller.
Check the namespace in Web API controller it should be as following
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web.Http;
If the namespace are as following then it is give above error in web api controller method calling
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
Please check you have two methods which has the different name and same parameters.
If so please delete any of the method and try.
I've stumbled upon this problem while trying to augment my WebAPI controllers with extra actions.
Assume you would have
public IEnumerable<string> Get()
{
return this.Repository.GetAll();
}
[HttpGet]
public void ReSeed()
{
// Your custom action here
}
There are now two methods that satisfy the request for /api/controller which triggers the problem described by TS.
I didn't want to add "dummy" parameters to my additional actions so I looked into default actions and came up with:
[ActionName("builtin")]
public IEnumerable<string> Get()
{
return this.Repository.GetAll();
}
for the first method in combination with the "dual" route binding:
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
defaults: new { action = "builtin", id = RouteParameter.Optional },
constraints: new { id = #"\d+" });
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "CustomActionApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}");
Note that even though there is no "action" parameter in the first route template apparently you can still configure a default action allowing us to separate the routing of the "normal" WebAPI calls and the calls to the extra action.
In my Case Everything was right
1) Web Config was configured properly
2) Route prefix and Route attributes were proper
Still i was getting the error. In my Case "Route" attribute (by pressing F12) was point to System.Web.MVc but not System.Web.Http which caused the issue.
You can add [Route("api/[controller]/[action]")] to your controller class.
[Route("api/[controller]/[action]")]
[ApiController]
public class MySuperController : ControllerBase
{
...
}
I know it is an old question, but sometimes, when you use service resources like from AngularJS to connect to WebAPI, make sure you are using the correct route, other wise this error happens.
Make sure you do NOT decorate your Controller methods for the default GET|PUT|POST|DELETE actions with [HttpPost/Put/Get/Delete] attribute. I had added this attibute to my vanilla Post controller action and it caused a 404.
Hope this helps someone as it can be very frustrating and bring progress to a halt.
For example => TestController
[HttpGet]
public string TestMethod(int arg0)
{
return "";
}
[HttpGet]
public string TestMethod2(string arg0)
{
return "";
}
[HttpGet]
public string TestMethod3(int arg0,string arg1)
{
return "";
}
If you can only change WebApiConfig.cs file.
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}/",
defaults: null
);
Thats it :)
And Result :
Have you tried like:
[HttpGet("Summary")]
public HttpResponseMessage Summary(MyVm vm)
{
return null;
}
[HttpGet("FullDetails")]
public HttpResponseMessage FullDetails()
{
return null;
}
Using Web Api I have an OData EndPoint which can return Products from a database.
I have multiple databases with similar schemas, and want to pass a parameter in the URL to identify which database the Api should use.
Current Odata Endpoint:
http://localhost:62999/Products
What I want:
http://localhost:62999/999/Products
In the new Url, I pass in 999 (the database ID).
The database ID is intended to specify which database to load the product from. For example localhost:62999/999/Products('ABC123') would load product 'ABC123' from database 999, but the next request, localhost:62999/111/Products('XYZ789') would load the product 'XYZ789' from database 111.
The Url below works, but I don't like it.
localhost:62999/Products('XYZ789')?database=111
Here is the code for the controller:
public class ProductsController : ErpApiController //extends ODataController, handles disposing of database resources
{
public ProductsController(IErpService erpService) : base(erpService) { }
[EnableQuery(PageSize = 50)]
public IQueryable<ProductDto> Get(ODataQueryOptions<ProductDto> queryOptions)
{
return ErpService.Products(queryOptions);
}
[EnableQuery]
public SingleResult<ProductDto> Get([FromODataUri] string key, ODataQueryOptions<ProductDto> queryOptions)
{
var result = ErpService.Products(queryOptions).Where(p => p.StockCode == key);
return SingleResult.Create(result);
}
}
I use Ninject to resolve which implementation of IErpService to inject into the controller by binding to a service provider:
kernel.Bind<IErpService>().ToProvider(new ErpServiceProvider());
And the ErpServiceProvider inspects the url to identify the databaseId required by this request:
public class ErpServiceProvider : Provider<IErpService>
{
protected override IErpService CreateInstance(IContext context)
{
var databaseId = HttpContext.Current.Request["database"];
return new SageErpService(new SageContext(GetDbConnection(databaseId)));
}
}
The bit I am stuck on is how to define the Url parameter in the OData route config.
Normal WebApi routes can have parameters defined as follows:
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
);
But how do I define the parameters in the OData route config?
ODataModelBuilder builder = new ODataConventionModelBuilder();
builder.EntitySet<ProductDto>("Products");
builder.EntitySet<WorkOrderDto>("WorkOrders");
config.MapODataServiceRoute(
routeName: "ODataRoute",
routePrefix: null,
model: builder.GetEdmModel());
Is this even where I should be defining the Url parameters?
I have also thought about using a Message Handler but I am not certain how this can be implemented either.
UPDATE
This question is trying to do the same thing as me: How to declare a parameter as prefix on OData
But it is not clear how the parameter is to be read from the url.
var databaseId = HttpContext.Current.Request["database"]; returns null currently. Even after updating the route config to the following:
public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
{
// Web API routes
config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "ErpApi",
routeTemplate: "{database}/{controller}"
);
// Web API configuration and services
ODataModelBuilder builder = new ODataConventionModelBuilder();
builder.EntitySet<ProductDto>("Products");
builder.EntitySet<WorkOrderDto>("WorkOrders");
config.MapODataServiceRoute(
routeName: "ODataRoute",
routePrefix: "{company}/",
model: builder.GetEdmModel());
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
);
}
I've encountered a solution to pass dynamic parameter on OData, not sure if is the right one.
I've used this solution on a certain context, where the dynamic parameter was just to authenticate the client, but I think you can solve your problem in a similar way.
Problem: You wan't to pass a dynamic value at the URL request example: http://localhost:62999/{dynamicValue}/Products('ABC123'), but the ODataRouting will never route correctly, because of that extra /{dynamicValue} and the ODataControler "will not hit".
Using ApiController you could made a custom routing, but at OData you can't (at least I didn't found an easy way to do it, probably you had to made your own or extend the OData routing convention).
So as alternative solution:
If every request will have a dynamicValue for example: "http://localhost:62999/{dynamicValue}/Products" do the following steps:
Before routing the request Extract the dynamicValue (In my case, I've used an IAuthenticationFilter to intercept the message before it was routed, since the parameter was related with authorization, but maybe for your case it makes more sense to use another thing)
Store the dynamicValue (somewhere on the request context)
Route the ODataController without the {dynamicValue}.
/Products('ABC123') instead of /{dynamicValue}/Products('ABC123')
Here is the code:
// Register the ServiceRoute
public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
{
// Register the filter that will intercept the request before it is rooted to OData
config.Filters.Add(CustomAuthenticationFilter>()); // If your dynamic parameter is related with Authentication use an IAuthenticationFilter otherwise you can register a MessageHandler for example.
// Create the default collection of built-in conventions.
var conventions = ODataRoutingConventions.CreateDefault();
config.MapODataServiceRoute(
routeName: "NameOfYourRoute",
routePrefix: null, // Here you can define a prefix if you want
model: GetEdmModel(), //Get the model
pathHandler: new CustomPathHandler(), //Using CustomPath to handle dynamic parameter
routingConventions: conventions); //Use the default routing conventions
}
// Just a filter to intercept the message before it hits the controller and to extract & store the DynamicValue
public class CustomAuthenticationFilter : IAuthenticationFilter, IFilter
{
// Extract the dynamic value
var dynamicValueStr = ((string)context.ActionContext.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["odatapath"])
.Substring(0, ((string)context.ActionContext.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["odatapath"])
.IndexOf('/')); // You can use a more "safer" way to parse
int dynamicValue;
if (int.TryParse(dynamicValueStr, out dynamicValue))
{
// TODO (this I leave it to you :))
// Store it somewhere, probably at the request "context"
// For example as claim
}
}
// Define your custom path handler
public class CustomPathHandler : DefaultODataPathHandler
{
public override ODataPath Parse(IEdmModel model, string serviceRoot, string odataPath)
{
// Code made to remove the "dynamicValue"
// This is assuming the dynamicValue is on the first "/"
int dynamicValueIndex= odataPath.IndexOf('/');
odataPath = odataPath.Substring(dynamicValueIndex + 1);
// Now OData will route the request normaly since the route will only have "/Products('ABC123')"
return base.Parse(model, serviceRoot, odataPath);
}
}
Now you should have the information of the dynamic value stored at the context of the request and OData should route correctly to the ODataController. Once your there at your method, you can access the request context to get information about the "dynamic value" and use it to choose the correct database
These APIs have likely changed quite a bit since this original post. But I was able to accomplish this by making the default data route prefix contain the parameter:
b.MapODataServiceRoute("odata", "odata/{customerName}", GetEdmModel());
In my scenario, I have a database per customer, so I want the route prefix to accept the name of the customer (database):
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env)
{
...
app.UseMvc(b =>
{
b.MapODataServiceRoute("odata", "odata/{customerName}", GetEdmModel());
});
}
Example controller (note customerName parameter on the action):
public class BooksController : ODataController
{
private IContextResolver _contextResolver;
public BooksController(IContextResolver contextResolver)
{
_contextResolver = contextResolver;
}
[EnableQuery]
public IActionResult Get(string customerName)
{
var context = _contextResolver.Resolve(customerName);
return Ok(context.Books);
}
}
Then you can hit the URL like: https://localhost/odata/acmecorp/Books
I'm working on an asp.net web api with hypermedia. Now I'm making a link creator that creates a link to a resource exposed by a controller. It should support attribute routes, which I've solved with reflection, but also mapped routes specified in Owin.AppBuilder:
public void Configuration(IAppBuilder appBuilder)
{
var config = new HttpConfiguration();
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "{controller}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", id = RouteParameter.Optional }
);
// ...
}
I could use the UrlHelper class for this, but it depends on the current request, and the link I'm creating could be to another controller, and thus have no relationship with the current request. So what I need is to load the route configuration data for the route named DefaultApi. Is it any way to do this?
If you can use Route Attribute, you can name your route via a name property, what I did is I defined my routes in RoutesHelper and when I define my controller route, I reference this constant, and when I want to use CreatedAtRoute for example I reference the same routeName and pass the parameters to construct the route.
So let's say that my controller is called PeopleController, then I would define my controller as:
[Route("api/people/{id:int:min(1)?}", Name = RoutesHelper.RouteNames.People)]
public class PeopleController : ApiController
{
// controller code here
}
where RoutesHelper is like this:
public static class RoutesHelper
{
public struct RouteNames
{
public const string People = "People";
// etc...
}
}
Now in my Post method for example I use CreateAtRoute like this:
[HttpPost]
[ResponseType(typeof(PersonDto))]
public async Task<IHttpActionResult> AddAsync([FromBody] personDto dto)
{
// some code to map my dto to the entity using automapper, and save the new entity goes here
//.
//.
// here, I am mapping the saved entity to dto
var added = Mapper.Map<PersonDto>(person);
// this is where I reference the route by it's name and construct the route parameters.
var response = CreatedAtRoute(RoutesHelper.RouteNames.People, new { id = added.Id }, added);
return response;
}
Hope this helps.
I have an ApiController where I have 2 actions:
public IEnumerable<Users> GetUsers(){}
public IHttpActionResult UsersPagination(int startindex = 0, int size = 5, string sortby = "Username", string order = "DESC"){}
Since I have default routing like below:
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
);
I get the error:
Multiple actions were found that match the request:
GetUsers on type HomeBook.API.Controllers.UsersController
UsersPagination on type HomeBook.API.Controllers.UsersController
Basically, I want 2 actions in my controller: one that returns all users another returns a pagination form of users. Like here: http://dev.librato.com/v1/pagination
Please suggest how I can achieve this.
By default, WebApi uses a convention to map request to specific action methods. With the current setup it cannot decide which of the two methods should be used. You can read more about WebApi routing here - Routing in ASP.NET Web API
Once way to resolve such problems is to use Attribute Routing. As the name suggest with this technique attributes are used to control how requests are mapped to action methods. You can read more about Attribute routing here - http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/web-api-routing-and-actions/attribute-routing-in-web-api-2
To solve your problem with attribute routing you can use the following setup:
[RoutePrefix("api/pagination")]
public class MyController
{
[HttpGet]
[Route("users")]
public IEnumerable<Users> GetUsers() { }
[HttpGet]
[Route("users-paginated")]
public IHttpActionResult UsersPagination(int startindex = 0, int size = 5, string sortby = "Username", string order = "DESC") { }
}
Now, if you make a request to api/pagination/users then GetUsers() will be invoked. Similarly, if you make a request to api/pagination/users-paginated then UsersPagination() will be invoked.
I am getting to following exception when i am trying to call a GET function in MVC WebAPI
{"$id":"1","Message":"An error has occurred.",
"ExceptionMessage":"Multiple actions were found that match the request:
\r\nSystem.Xml.XmlNode Get(Int32, System.String)
I think the problem is cause due to two get function
I have defined two functions:
One:
[HttpGet]
public XmlNode Get(int id, string Tokken)
{
//Do something
}
Second One
[HttpGet]
public List<UsersAnswers> GetUsersInteractions(int? activityID, string Tokken)
{
// Do Something
}
The route configuration
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
);
Now i am getting the exception when i try to call to the second function:
{SiteURL}/api/Activities/GetUsersInteractions?activityID=32&Tokken=r54e54353
As you can see the route engine sent the request to the first function instead of the second.
How can i define two get operation and to call each one separately?
With the default routing template, Web API uses the HTTP method to select the action. However, you can also create a route where the action name is included in the URI:
routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "ActionApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
);
In this route template, the {action} parameter names the action method on the controller. With this style of routing, use attributes to specify the allowed HTTP methods. For example, suppose your controller has the following method:
public class ProductsController : ApiController
{
[HttpGet]
public string Details(int id);
}
In this case, a GET request for “api/products/details/1” would map to the Details method. This style of routing is similar to ASP.NET MVC, and may be appropriate for an RPC-style API.
You can override the action name by using the ActionName attribute. In the following example, there are two actions that map to "api/products/thumbnail/id. One supports GET and the other supports POST:
public class ProductsController : ApiController
{
[HttpGet]
[ActionName("Thumbnail")]
public HttpResponseMessage GetThumbnailImage(int id);
[HttpPost]
[ActionName("Thumbnail")]
public void AddThumbnailImage(int id);
}
You are not calling the second function - the second function is named InsertUserRecord and is a POST method. The function you're calling via GET is GetUserInteractions. As there's no such function for GET, the engine may map this to the only GET function there is, but actually it should throw a "no such function" error.