I've got a few methods, which I want to follow a specific pattern for their URLs.
Basically there's restaurants, which have IDs, and a collection of Terminals under them.
I'm trying to get the following sort of pattern to emerge:api/Restaurant - get all Restaurantsapi/Restaurant/Bobs - gets the restaurant with the ID of Bobsapi/Restaurant/Bobs/terminals - get all terminals in bobs restaurantapi/Restaurant/bobs/terminals/second - get the terminal with the ID of second in the restaurant bob
I've got the methods to do this, and I've assigned the Route attribute to each as follows:
[HttpGet]public IEnumerable<IRestaurant> Get(){//do stuff, return all}[HttpGet][Route("api/Restaurant/{restuarantName}")]public IRestaurant Get(string restaurantName){//do stuff}[HttpGet][Route("api/restuarant/{restaurantName}/terminals")]public IEnumerable<IMiseTerminalDevice> GetDevices(string restaurantName){//do stuff} [HttpGet][Route("api/restaurant/{restaurantName}/terminals/{terminalName}")]public IMiseTerminalDevice GetDeviceByName(string restaurantName, string terminalName){//do stuff}
However only my basic GET (api/Restaurant) is working. My WebAPI config is the default, and reads
config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(name: "DefaultApi",routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional });config.Formatters.JsonFormatter.SupportedMediaTypes.Add(new MediaTypeHeaderValue("text/html"));
Anybody know where I'm going wrong? All other methods return routing mismatch (restaurant with ID) or a 404.
Thanks in advance!
Best Answer
I have just created the default WEB API project which includes a ProductsController. Next, I pasted your api methods in.
public class ProductsController:ApiController{[HttpGet][Route("api/Restaurant/{restaurantName}")]public IHttpActionResult Get(string restaurantName){//do stuffreturn Ok("api/Restaurant/{restuarantName}");}[HttpGet][Route("api/restuarant/{restaurantName}/terminals")]public IHttpActionResult GetDevices(string restaurantName){//do stuffreturn Ok("api/restuarant/{restaurantName}/terminals");}[HttpGet][Route("api/restaurant/{restaurantName}/terminals/{terminalName}")]public IHttpActionResult GetDeviceByName(string restaurantName, string terminalName){//do stuffreturn Ok("api/restaurant/{restaurantName}/terminals/{terminalName}");}}
Finally, I used Fiddler to make an request
**http://localhost:9969/api/restuarant/Vanbeo/terminals**
and everything works fine!
System Configs: Visual Studio 2013, WEB API 2.2, Net 4.5
Could you please retry with an empty project?
PS: I have to post this as an answer because there is not enough space in the comment!