ASP.NET Core Web API: Routing by method name?

Question

I remember from ASP.NET Web API that it\'s sufficient to prefix Web API REST method names with HTTP commands (e.g. GetList() => HTTP GET, Delete(

Answer 1

This is available for Core 2 yes, but the way that I know how to do it is something like this

[Route("api/[controller]")]
[ApiController]
public class AvailableRoomsController : ControllerBase
{
    private readonly ApplicationContext _context;

    public AvailableRoomsController(ApplicationContext context)
    {
        _context = context;
    }

    // GET: api/AvailableRooms
    [HttpGet]
    public async Task>> GetAvailableRooms()
    {
        return await _context.AvailableRooms.ToListAsync();
    }


    // POST: api/AvailableRooms
    [HttpPost]
    public async Task> PostAvailableRoom(AvailableRoom availableRoom)
    {
        _context.AvailableRooms.Add(availableRoom);
        await _context.SaveChangesAsync();

        return CreatedAtAction("GetAvailableRoom", new { id = availableRoom.Id }, availableRoom);
    }

    [HttpPut] .... etc
}

Now depending on what kind of REST action you specify and what type of model you send to "api/AvailableRooms" if the proper Action exists it will be chosen.

Visual Studio 2019 and I think 2017 can create a controller such as this automatically if you right click your Controllers folder and click Add->Controller and then choose "API Controller with actions, using Entity Framework" and choose one of your Model classes.