Handling Singular and Plural Controllers/Routes

Question

I\'m a little confused on how I should handle singular and plural routes and controllers in my web application.

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Answer 1

For WebAPI it should be plural. Microsoft has examples. In this examples for WebAPI it is plural. Here's links

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/best-practices/api-implementation (this is best practise),

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/web-api/overview/web-api-routing-and-actions/routing-in-aspnet-web-api

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/odata/webapi/built-in-routing-conventions

In first example it is OrdersController . In last 2 pages there is ProductsController which is in plural. Also REST naming convention strict with that. Links should be in plural. So simple way to accomplish this in c# is to create controller with plural name

As for MVC it should be singular controller