Question

Given the uri…

http://localhost:5613/api/user/1/HasCompletedInitialScreen

I have the following route configured…

public static class WebApiConfig
{
    public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
    {
        config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
            name: "ApiUserHasCompletedInitialScreen",
            routeTemplate: "api/user/{id}/{hascompletedinitialscreen}");

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

and the controller action…

[HttpGet]
[ActionName("HasCompletedInitialScreen")]
public HttpResponseMessage HasCompletedInitialScreen(int id)
{
    var response = Request.CreateResponse<bool>(HttpStatusCode.Created, true);
    response.Headers.Location = GetLocation(id);
    return response;
}

However, I get a 404. How do I fix my route configuration and/or controller action to make this work?

Many thanks!!

UPDATE

Based on the accepted answer, I modified my api route definition to the following. Hope this helps someone else…

        config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
            name: "QueryApi",
            routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}/{action}");

Answer 1

I’m not sure what you are trying to do but, if you want to be able to call

http://localhost:5613/api/user/1/HasCompletedInitialScreen

Your route needs to be like this:

config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
                name: "ApiUserHasCompletedInitialScreen",
                routeTemplate: "api/user/{id}/{action}",
                defaults: new { controller = "Something" }
            );

Where SomethingController is your controller containing the HasCompletedInitialScreen action.

On a side note, you don’t need to declare ActionName attribute if its name is the same as your action method name.