How do I send a request to an API controller from one of the site controllers?

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Hi All,
I'm working on an MVC4 Web API project that has site controllers and API controllers. How do I send a request to an API controller from one of the site controllers?

This is my REST API Controller.

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public class ApplicationsController : ApiController
   {      
       [HttpGet]
       public Guid GetID(string name)
       {
       }
    }

This is my site Action Controller.
 public class DemoViewController : Controller
    {   
       [HttpGet]   
        public ActionResult GetID()
        {
            return View();
        }
Above Site action Controller is to used inside the Areas and My API Controllers to be used out side of Areas

Posted 29-Jan-13 2:40am

Karthikeyan Mathiyalagan

Updated 29-Jan-13 3:46am

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Jameel VM 29-Jan-13 9:00am

What you have tried?ActionLink?

Karthikeyan Mathiyalagan 29-Jan-13 9:18am

i tried to action link..

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Jameel VM · Answer 1 · 2013-01-29T03:28:00

Solution 1

Please specify the area in your ActionLink like below

C#

@Html.ActionLink("Admin", "Index", "Meets", new { area = "Admin" }, null)

Hope this helps

Posted 29-Jan-13 3:28am

Jameel VM

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Karthikeyan Mathiyalagan 29-Jan-13 9:49am

@jemi, my APIControllers are used out side of Areas. now how to send the request from areas site action controller.

Jameel VM 29-Jan-13 10:04am

then use like this @Html.ActionLink("Admin", "Index", "Meets", new { area = "" }, null)

Karthikeyan Mathiyalagan 29-Jan-13 15:13pm

i need to call api controller in page load?

Jameel VM 29-Jan-13 23:57pm

In MVC there is no pageLoad?Where you want to reDirect and From?

Karthikeyan Mathiyalagan 30-Jan-13 12:29pm

now i need to call server side to call api controller.

Jameel VM 31-Jan-13 0:10am

Why you are implementing APIController in ApplicationController?

Karthikeyan Mathiyalagan 31-Jan-13 1:27am

actually my project environment is all DB Access methods in APIController, we are using several Areas, each areas Controller to call APIController to Access the methods.

Jameel VM 31-Jan-13 3:47am

Please change your current architecture level of coding by implemting Repository pattern and dependency injection.Now you are keeping your dataAccessLayer in APIController.Please avoid this and implementing Repository pattern.

Jameel VM 31-Jan-13 3:51am

You can reuse the common methods in APIContoller for other controllers by implementing it. Keep Dataacesslayer separate from Controller.Don't mix up those things.Controller is only for handing the request and response

Jameel VM · Answer 2 · 2013-01-30T18:08:00

Solution 2

Try this.
You can call an action outside in the Area

C#

@Html.ActionLink("GetId", "Application", new { area = "" })

Call action inside of an area

C#

@Html.ActionLink("GetId", "Api", new { area = "SpecifyYourAreaName" })

Hope this helps

Posted 30-Jan-13 18:08pm

Jameel VM

Updated 30-Jan-13 18:09pm

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