I have a webapi project with a base ApiController named SlashBaseService:
[RouteArea("uBase")]
public abstract class SlashBaseService : ApiController
{
}
The resulting dll is used in a WebForms project so I also have a WebActivator class with the following code to generate routes:
RouteTable.Routes.MapHttpAttributeRoutes(config =>
{
// Get all services inheriting from SlashBaseService
foreach (var assembly in AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies())
{
foreach (var type in assembly.GetTypes())
{
if (type.IsSubclassOf(typeof(SlashBaseService)))
{
// Scan assembly
config.ScanAssembly(assembly);
// Skip the remaining types in this assembly
break;
}
}
}
});
RouteTable.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultBase",
routeTemplate: "base/{controller}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional });
I also have a testservice in a separate assembly:
public class SampleSlashBaseService : SlashBaseService
{
[GET("TestOpenMethod")]
public string GetTestOpenMethod()
{
return "Hello anonymous!";
}
[GET("Echo/{message}")]
public string GetEcho(string message)
{
return message;
}
}
All pretty simple stuff. The problem is when I try to go to one of the urls this generates i get the following message:
No type was found that matches the controller named 'SampleSlashBaseService'.
The route list from /routes.axd also looks correct.
Found the problem.
ApiControllers
class names need to be suffixed with "Controller", and mine was not.
Changing it to SampleSlashBaseController
solved the problem.
NOTE:
It is possible to suffix it with "Service" as I did, but then you have to implement a custom IHttpControllerSelector
like described here: http://netmvc.blogspot.no/2012/06/aspnet-mvc-4-webapi-support-areas-in.html