In ASP.NET MVC4 application Json Web api needs to be created to serve requests with term and code url parameters like:
http://myapp.com/api/customers
returns all customers
http://myapp.com/api/customers?term=partofname
returns 0 .. n customers
and
http://myapp.com/api/customers?code=customercode
returns 1 customer always
code is customer id which can contain / and other characters which are not allowed in url passed to windows http server by http.sys in windows kernel
API controller below is tried but it causes compile error
Error Type 'Erp.Controllers.CustomersController' already defines a member called 'Get' with the same parameter types.
How to fix this ? Which is proper way to create API class for such request? Should odata or different method names used or other way? Application must run in Windows 2003 server and in Mono so Web API v.2 cannot used.
Method and query string parameter names can changed if this helps. Returned data format cannot changed.
public class CustomersController : ApiController
{
public object Get()
{
var res = GetAllCustomers();
return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK,
new { customers = res.ToArray() } );
}
public object Get(string term)
{
var res = GetCustomersByTerm(term);
return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK,
new { customers = res.ToArray() } );
}
public object Get(string code)
{
var res = GetCustomersById(code);
// code is actually unique customer id which can contain / and other characters which are not allowed in
// url directory names in windows http server
return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK,
new { customers = res.ToArray() });
}
}
default routing is used:
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
);
Update
I tried answer but search parameter is always null. Whole request is below. How to pass parameters ?
GET /api/customers?term=kaks&_=1385320904347 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:52216
Connection: keep-alive
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.57 Safari/537.36
Referer: http://localhost:52216/erp/Sale
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: et-EE,et;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4
Cookie: .myAuth=8B6B3CFFF3DF64EBEF3D258240D217C56603AF255C869FBB7934560D9F560659342DC4D1EAE6AB28454122A86C3CE6C598FB594E8DC84A; My_Session=5aw2bsjp4i4a5vxtekz