Question

I’m playing with ASP.NET Web API and I have the following:

public Guid GetLogon(string username, string password)
{
    return new X.Authentication().Logon(username, password);
}

public void PostLogoff(Guid sessionId)
{
    new X.Authentication().Logoff(sessionId);
}

This is being called from the client side as follows:

$(document).ready(function () {
    logon("MyUsername", "MyPassword", function (guid) {
        $("#sessionId").html(guid);

        logoff($("#sessionId").html(), function () {
            //Logged out action here
        });
    });        
});

This all works, but I don’t like to have to prefix the Action names with the http verb, like GetLogon or PostLogoff. Is there a way to make them just Logon and Logoff?

I tried the following, which didn’t work:

[System.Web.Mvc.AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Get)]
public Guid Logon(string username, string password)
{
    return new X.Authentication().Logon(username, password);
}

[System.Web.Mvc.AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
public void Logoff(Guid sessionId)
{
    new X.Authentication().Logoff(sessionId);
}

Thank you in advance

Answer 1

Not sure if this is the cause, but in my APIController the AcceptVerbs attribute is in a different namespace:

System.Web.Http.AcceptVerbs

The [HttpGet] and [HttpPost] attribute are in the same namespace

I have a number of regular MVC controllers in the same project; they use the namespace you have described above, but not the API Controllers

Try this:

[System.Web.Http.AcceptVerbs("GET")]
public Guid Logon(string username, string password)
{
    return new X.Authentication().Logon(username, password);
}

[System.Web.Http.AcceptVerbs("POST")]
public void Logoff(Guid sessionId)
{
    new X.Authentication().Logoff(sessionId);
}