Modify route of API controller to remove "API" from the controller name

Question

I have two controllers for my User model. One is a regular MVC controller which handles the views and inherits from Controller. Then I have an API controller which inherits from ApiController. Their names are UsersController and UsersApiController respectively. I wish to remove from "Api" from the API controller's URL so I can type:

www.mywebsite.com/api/Users

rather than:

www.mywebsite.com/api/UsersApi

which contains a redundant "api".

I have tried applying the attribute [Route("Users")] and [Route("api/Users")] to the entire controller but neither work and they seem to just break it. My WebApiConfig.cs has the default route config.

How can I do this?

Shyju · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-24 22:36:20Z

4

You should be able to use Attribute routing.

[RoutePrefix("api/users")]
public class UsersApiController : ApiController
{  
    [Route("")]
    public HttpResponseMessage Get() 
    { 

    }
}

You should be able to customize it per action methods as well

public class UsersApiController : ApiController
{  
    [Route("api/users")]
    public HttpResponseMessage Get() 
    { 

    }
}

answered Jul 24, 2015 at 22:36

Shyju

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