Hi All,

what I'm trying to do is to call a WebApi in my custom SurfaceController and render the data in an umbraco template.

Template:

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
@using Umbraco.Web
@using Cockpit.Controllers
@{
    Layout = "Master.cshtml";
}

@using (Html.BeginUmbracoForm<MgmtApiSurfaceController>("GetEngagements"))
{   
    <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" border="1">
        <tr>            
            <th>Engagement Name</th>
            <th>PSP</th>
            <th>Resource Group Name</th>            
        </tr>
        @foreach (var e in ViewBag.result)
        {
            <tr>
                <td>@e.EngagementName</td>
                <td>@e.Psp</td>
                <td>@e.ResourceGroupName</td>
            </tr>               
        }
    </table>    
}

I receive the following error:

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Source Error:

Line 14: Resource Group Name
Line 15: Line 16: @foreach (var e in ViewBag.result) Line 17: { Line 18:

If I debug the application I see that the controller is not called and that is the reason why ViewBag is empty...

Controller:

public class MgmtApiSurfaceController : SurfaceController
    {
        // GET
        public ActionResult GetEngagements()
        {
            HttpClient client = new HttpClient();

            client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://xxxxxx.azurewebsites.net"); //  
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(
                new System.Net.Http.Headers.MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json")
                );

            HttpResponseMessage response = client.GetAsync("/api/Engagement").Result;

            if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
            {

                ViewBag.result = response.Content.ReadAsAsync<IEnumerable<MgmtApiModels.Engagement>>().Result;
            }
            else
            {
                ViewBag.result = "Error";
            }

            return View();
        }
    }

What could be the reason why the controller is not called?

Thx, Anton