URL Routing with WEB API and Area in MVC5

Question

I am working on an MVC 5 application. In that i have created an Area named Organization. I have also created an (API) folder in controllers folder of that Area. So my structure have become like

/Areas/Organization/Controllers/API/OrganizationAPI

Where OrganizationAPI is API Controller for Organization Area. Now my problem is regarding Routing in MVC. I am unable to find what URL will invoke my API.

I have tried with this URL

http://localhost:80/Organization/API/OrganizationAPI/getData

where getData is My action method. But it says resource not found. Can any please help me in understanding that how can i register my own routes so that i can map my actions with URLs and also suggest me some reference URL for URL Routing in MVC 4 or above.

Answer 1

If your project already contains a WebApiConfig.cs file, great! You just need to add a route like below:

public static class WebApiConfig
{
    public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
    {
        config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();

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

        // NEW ROUTE FOR YOUR AREA
        config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
            name: "API Area Default",
            routeTemplate: "api/AREA/{controller}/{id}",
            defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
        );
    }
}