Web api custom routing

Question

I have a Controller called QuotaController, and i can access it via httprequests, like this:

localhost:12345/quota/

What i want is to put an endpoint somewhere so i can access it like:

localhost:12345/quota/increment

or

localhost:12345/quota/decrement

How can this be done?

Darin Dimitrov · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-03 08:07:27Z

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You could change your web api route definition to allow passing an action name:

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

And then:

public class QuotaController : ApiController
{
    public void Increment()
    {
        ...
    }

    public void Decrement()
    {
        ...
    }
}

answered May 3, 2012 at 8:07

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Zoltan Varadi Over a year ago

I already have a route like that, right now quotacontroller looks like this: public class QuotaController : ApiController { public HttpResponseMessage GetQuota(int id){} [System.Web.Http.HttpPost] public HttpResponseMessage SetQuota(int id, DocType doc, QuotaType quota, int value){} [System.Web.Http.HttpPost] public HttpResponseMessage Increment{} [System.Web.Http.HttpPost] public HttpResponseMessage Decrement{} } Can i have more than one post request in one controller?

Darin Dimitrov Over a year ago

Yes, you can have more than one POST action.

Darin Dimitrov Over a year ago

Your url seems to be missing the api prefix. Shouldn't it be localhost:15339/api/quota/increment? At least that's how it should be according to the route definition I've shown in my answer.

Zoltan Varadi Over a year ago

i just got your comment, sorry: i left the api prefix from the route, but also from the request, so it's okay like that. but the Increment and Decrement has the same parametering, and i get multiple actions were found error :/

Darin Dimitrov Over a year ago

But if you remove the api prefix how are you able to disambiguate between your API controllers and your standard controllers? Or in this ASP.NET MVC application you only have API controllers and not UI?

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