Redirect to a page from Web API - APIController

Question

User6475278 posted

Hi..

I have developed the REST API using web API. Now i need to redirect to a page from httpppost method in api controller.  What is the feasible solution to achieve this.

Need ur suggestions with examples..

Regards,

Gopal

Answer 1

User-760709272 posted

Have the webapi return the url to redirect to as its return data, or as a property on the data it returns, and your calling code will issue the redirect to that url.

Answer 2

User6475278 posted

Hi aidy,

Thanks for your response. We can able to redirect using web api return data via jquery etc. But i want to redirect to a page in web api httppost block itself. i.e) in apicontroller using c#.

How to do this. Need ur suggestions.

Regards,

Gopal

Answer 3

User-760709272 posted

You can't really do that, when you contact the webapi it is via a client object that communicates via http.  To instigate a redirect the browser itself would need to post\get to the api directly.  Just issue a redirect in the c# code, you don't need any javascript involved.

Answer 4

User6475278 posted

Hi Aidy,

Thanks for your reply.

Can you please share a sample code to achieve this.

Thanks,

Gopal

Answer 5

User-760709272 posted

string url = resultOfYourApiCall();
Response.Redirect(url);

Without knowing exactly what your api call does it's hard to give an example, just have the api return the url it wants the client to redirect to then redirect there.

Answer 6

User6475278 posted

Hi Aidy..

Thanks For you response.

Below is my sample code.

public class sampleApiController : ApiController
{

[HttpPost]
public string emp(emp jsondata)
{

if(jsondata.Name="")

{

//Here i need to redirect to a aspx page.

}

}

}

Waiting for ur suggestions..

Thanks,

Gopal

Answer 7

User-417640953 posted

Hi gopalnivas,

Thanks for your post.

You can try to return the page content to web api content like below:

[HttpPost]
 public HttpResponseMessage emp(emp jsondata)
 {

   if(jsondata.Name="")

   {

      //Here i need to redirect to a aspx page.
    var response = Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.Moved);
    response.Headers.Location = new Uri("your url....");
    return response;


   }

}

Similar issues you can follow below:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11324711/redirect-from-asp-net-web-api-post-action

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20893670/webapi-redirect-not-working

Thanks.

Best Regards!