Calling Web API from MVC controller

Question

I have a WebAPI Controller within my MVC5 project solution. The WebAPI has a method which returns all files in a specific folder as a Json list:

[{\"name\":\"file

Answer 1

Its very late here but thought to share below code. If we have our WebApi as a different project altogether in the same solution then we can call the same from MVC controller like below

public class ProductsController : Controller
    {
        // GET: Products
        public async Task Index()
        {
            string apiUrl = "http://localhost:58764/api/values";

            using (HttpClient client=new HttpClient())
            {
                client.BaseAddress = new Uri(apiUrl);
                client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
                client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new System.Net.Http.Headers.MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));

                HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync(apiUrl);
                if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
                {
                    var data = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
                    var table = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(data);

                }


            }
            return View();

        }
    }