Use different route template for controller

Question

Is it possible to change the Routing controller name in MVC? In MVC 5 I would have done this:

[RoutePrefix("MySpecialSauce")]
public class ProductsController : Controller
{
    [Route("GetBy/{id}")]
    public MyObject GetBy(int id)
    {
        return something(id);
    }
}

Now all I can find is to use the default name of your controller:

[Route("[controller]")]
public class ProductsController : Controller
{

    [HttpGet("GetBy/{id}")]
    public MyObject GetBy(int id)
    {
        return something(id);
    }
}

I want to use a different name for my route than actual controller name. How do you do this?

Answer 1

You can do the same in Core

[Route("MySpecialSauce")]
public class ProductsController : Controller {

    [HttpGet("GetBy/{id:int}")]//Matches GET MySpecialSauce/GetBy/5
    public MyObject GetBy(int id) {
        return something(id);
    }
}

[controller] is a token replacement to help with route template. it is not mandatory.

Source Token replacement in route templates ([controller], [action], [area])

For convenience, attribute routes support token replacement by enclosing a token in square-braces ([, ]). The tokens [action], [area], and [controller] will be replaced with the values of the action name, area name, and controller name from the action where the route is defined.