Hello,

I'm pretty new into using Umbraco. I'm a computer science student who took over a project that formerly used ASP.Net WebApi2 in combination with MVC, but they merged the project with Umbraco.

Right now I'm facing the problem, that we have a mobile app that should be connected via and API.

right now the urls look like this: "umbraco/api/Items/getListItems/{id:int}". and working perfectly fine

personally I want to remove the /umbraco/ so it begins with /api/. But my real struggle is that I want to have a second (2) additional parameters for only one method in one of my controllers.

Like: "/api/Items/action/{categoryID}/{userid}"

As far as I could see there is both a AppStart/RouteConfig.cs & AppStart/WebApiConfig.cs

RouteConfig.cs contains:

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
    {
        routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

        routes.MapRoute(
            name: "Default",
            url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );
    }

and WebApiConfig:

public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
    {
        // Web API routes
        config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();

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

But as I found out changes have 0 affect on my routes. Not even a customized second entry or modifiyng the default route seems to make a difference.

I know from earlier projects that I could directly in the controller action say: [System.Web.Http.Route("api/Items/getListItems/{id:int}")] and/or override default route by saying "~/api/..." but I guess they don't affect Umbraco's way to route.

In the Global.asax I could see that it still uses the old MVC settings:

public class MvcApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication
{
    protected void Application_Start()
    {
        AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();
        GlobalConfiguration.Configure(WebApiConfig.Register);
        FilterConfig.RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
        RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
        BundleConfig.RegisterBundles(BundleTable.Bundles);


    }
}

Following guides saying I have to use:

public class MvcApplication : Umbraco.Web.UmbracoApplication
{
    protected override void OnApplicationStarted(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        base.OnApplicationStarted(sender, e);
        AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();
    }
}

just gives me the error "No suitable method found to override".

I should probably mention that the "Global.asax" is using the namespace "xxMVC" together with umbraco related files, while the WebAPI is using its own namespace "xxWebServices" and implementing the UmbracoApiController

 public class Controllername : UmbracoApiController

(idk if thats needed or if I just can use the default controller)

I would be glad if someone knows a solution that could work.

Thanks in advance!

Regards Pierre