Generating Route Url to MVC controller action from WebAPI

Question

I'm used to generating route URLs to other controller actions within an MVC controller action using something similar to below:

public class ApplicationController : Controller {     public ActionResult Index( )     {         var url = Url.RouteUrl("routename",            new { controller = "Application", Action = "Index2" , other="other" });     }      public ActionResult Index2( string other)     {     } } 

But I also need to be able to generate URLs to MVC controller actions from within webapi too, How would I go about doing this?

There seems to be a UrlHelper property on the APIController but I cant find any examples of how to use this and have not been able to figure it out myself.

UPDATE : The reason I am trying to generate a url is that this particular webapi method sends an email which provides the recipient with a link to direct the user back to an appropriate section of the site. I obviously want to get away from hardcoding this as it will not work for different deployments and also if I begin changing the routing this link will be broken. Is there a better approach to doing this?

Answer 1

You can use MVC route names as well with web API UrlHelper. Example,

 Url.Link("Default", new { Controller = "Account", Action = "Login" }); 

or

 Url.Route("Default", new { Controller = "Account", Action = "Login" });