can we change web api action name by attribute routing

Question

User264732274 posted

please tell me can we change web api action name by attribute routing without using action name attribute ?

i know we can use action name attribute to change action name. it is used to over load action.

thanks

Answer 1

User-1672470423 posted

You can use RoutePrefix with Route to acheive above:

Example:

[RoutePrefix("api/Services")]
    public class ServicesController : ApiController
    {
        [AcceptVerbs("GET", "POST")]
        [HttpGet]
        [Route("SomeMethod")]
        public string[] SomeMethod()
        {
            return new string[] { "String1", "String2", "String3" };
        }
   

Answer 2

User-2057865890 posted

Hi Sudip_inn,

You simply add an attribute to the controller action:

[Route("customers/{customerId}/orders")]
public IEnumerable<Order> GetOrdersByCustomer(int customerId) { ... }

To enable attribute routing, call MapHttpAttributeRoutes during configuration.

using System.Web.Http;

namespace WebApplication
{
    public static class WebApiConfig
    {
        public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
        {
            // Web API routes
            config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();

            // Other Web API configuration not shown.
        }
    }
}

reference:

https://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/web-api-routing-and-actions/attribute-routing-in-web-api-2

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/b1df45/web-api-route-and-route-prefix-part-2/ 

Best Regards,

Chris

Answer 3

User264732274 posted

so tell me how the url would look like for the action GetOrdersByCustomer ?

thanks

Answer 4

User-1672470423 posted

Based on the example mentioned by Chris to access GetOrdersByCustomer. It will be like below:

http://YourServiceBaseURL/api/customers/{customerId}/orders //{customerId} is the id of customer.