Question

I am new to the web development world and I would like to be able to connect an HTML page to a web api through . and I was really not successful in this.

I followed this tutorial to be able to make this connection : http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/getting-started-with-aspnet-web-api/tutorial-your-first-web-api

All I need is to send some inputs from an HTML page to a web api that takes these parameters and returns an object

I am using this code

$.getJSON("api/GeneratorController/setparameters/"+firstparameter+"/"+secondparameter+"/"+thirdparameter+"/"+fourthparameter+"/"+fifthparameter+"/"+sixthparameter,
function (data) {
   alert(data); //never comes here
}).fail(function (jqXHR, textStatus, err) {
   alert("All checks are correct, image was not generated. jqXHR = " + jqXHR.valueOf() + " textStatus=" + textStatus + " Error" + err);
});

it always goes into the fail portion , I attached the alert message that comes out of it

Any Reason why it is doing this ?

@smartmeta (I changed the typo , thanks) I followed your advice and here is the output of the alert (as expected , values that I have inserted are displayed):

Answer 1

So I found what was the problem with my code

Two things :

1- I shouldn’t use the word “Controller” when I call my API ,it should be api/Generator/...

2- the function name needs to start with “get” and not “set” since it “gets” the return value from the api

Thanks everyone!