Using WebAPI Route attribute

Question

I've got a few methods, which I want to follow a specific pattern for their URLs.

Basically there's restaurants, which have IDs, and a collection of Terminals under them.

I'm trying to get the following sort of pattern to emerge: api/Restaurant - get all Restaurants api/Restaurant/Bobs - gets the restaurant with the ID of Bobs api/Restaurant/Bobs/terminals - get all terminals in bobs restaurant api/Restaurant/bobs/terminals/second - get the terminal with the ID of second in the restaurant bob

I've got the methods to do this, and I've assigned the Route attribute to each as follows:

    [HttpGet]
    public IEnumerable<IRestaurant> Get()
    {
        //do stuff, return all
    }

    [HttpGet]
        [Route("api/Restaurant/{restuarantName}")]
        public IRestaurant Get(string restaurantName)
        {
           //do stuff
        }

    [HttpGet]
    [Route("api/restuarant/{restaurantName}/terminals")]
    public IEnumerable<IMiseTerminalDevice> GetDevices(string restaurantName)
    {
       //do stuff
    } 

    [HttpGet]
    [Route("api/restaurant/{restaurantName}/terminals/{terminalName}")]
    public IMiseTerminalDevice GetDeviceByName(string restaurantName, string terminalName)
    {
        //do stuff
    }

However only my basic GET (api/Restaurant) is working. My WebAPI config is the default, and reads

    config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();

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

    config.Formatters.JsonFormatter.SupportedMediaTypes.Add(new MediaTypeHeaderValue("text/html"));

Anybody know where I'm going wrong? All other methods return routing mismatch (restaurant with ID) or a 404.

Thanks in advance!

Solution

I have just created the default WEB API project which includes a ProductsController. Next, I pasted your api methods in.

  public class ProductsController:ApiController
    {



        [HttpGet]
        [Route("api/Restaurant/{restaurantName}")]
        public IHttpActionResult Get(string restaurantName)
        {
            //do stuff
            return Ok("api/Restaurant/{restuarantName}");
        }

        [HttpGet]
        [Route("api/restuarant/{restaurantName}/terminals")]
        public IHttpActionResult GetDevices(string restaurantName)
        {
            //do stuff
            return Ok("api/restuarant/{restaurantName}/terminals");
        }

        [HttpGet]
        [Route("api/restaurant/{restaurantName}/terminals/{terminalName}")]
        public IHttpActionResult GetDeviceByName(string restaurantName, string terminalName)
        {
            //do stuff
            return Ok("api/restaurant/{restaurantName}/terminals/{terminalName}");
        }
    }

Finally, I used Fiddler to make an request

**http://localhost:9969/api/restuarant/Vanbeo/terminals**

and everything works fine!

System Configs: Visual Studio 2013, WEB API 2.2, Net 4.5

Could you please retry with an empty project?

PS: I have to post this as an answer because there is not enough space in the comment!

Comments

[Mathieson]

I created a new WebAPI project, and replaced the ValuesController method with the code above - now I find that localhost:3322/API/restaurant/bob returns correctly. However localhost:3322/API/restaurant/bob/terminals returns a 404

[Toan Nguyen]

Can you just upgrade your Web API package to version 2.2 and retry again?

[Mathieson]

WebAPI is at 2.2. I think there's a problem with the method names - changing my signature to [Route("api/restaurants/{restaurantName}/{terminalName}")] [Route("api/restaurants/{restaurantName}/terminals/{terminal‌​Name}")] [HttpGet] public IHttpActionResult GetTerminalByName(string restaurantName, string terminalName) has enabled me to get to the method at least. I've refactored to move to a larger aggregate root of Restaurant, so this can be a good way to sidestep the issue. Still frustrating though - even the RouteDebugger isn't showing much!