I have a WebAPI application that is used for some RESTful operations in the database. It works great, but I want to match a route with the root URL. For example, I want to go to the root of the site and see some useful information that are dynamically generated.
Currently, I have it setup so that it follows the standard convention of api/{controller}/{action}
, but how can I show this information when navigated to the root instead of something like api/diagnostics/all
?
Basically what I want is, when the user navigates to the root URL, I want to route that request to TestController.Index()
I have the following setup in the WebApiConfig.cs file:
public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
{
// Web API routes
config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "Index",
routeTemplate: "",
defaults: new { controller = "Test", action = "Index" }
);
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional, controller = "Test" }
);
}
And this is what my TestController.cs looks like:
[RoutePrefix("api")]
public class TestController : ApiController
{
[Route("TestService"), HttpGet]
public string Index()
{
return "Service is running normally...";
}
}
You could also simply use ([Route("")]
):
public class TestController : ApiController
{
[Route(""), HttpGet]
public string Index()
{
return "Service is running normally...";
}
}
You can add a route for the default URL in WebApiConfig.cs. Here's an example where the root URL is mapped to method HomeController.Index()
:
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "Root",
routeTemplate: "", // indicates the root URL
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" } // the controller action to handle this URL
);
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