Asp.Net Core Url.Action use WebApi Controller

Question

I have two types of controller in my application. One WebApi controller and one MVC controller. With the following structure of my project:

Project
|-- Controllers
|   |-- Api
|   |   |-- AccountController
|   |   |-- ...
|   |-- AccountController
|   |-- ...

As you can see, I have AccountController twice in two different namespaces though. The one in the folder Api is the WebApi controller and the one under Controllers is a MVC controller.

I would like to use @Url.Action("GetAll", "Account") inside my view to generate a link to my WebApi controller. How do I differentiate between the Api controller and the MVC controller. How can I tell it whether to use the Api or MVC controller?

Answer 1

In a word: you can't. Url.Action has no capability to distinguish by namespace; you'll need unique controller names. This is part of the reason why it's typical to add Api in the an API controller's name, ie AccountController and AccountApiController .

If you really want to use AccountController for both, your only real option is to use areas. You can create an Api area, rather than just a subfolder under Controllers , and then you can do:

@Url.Action("GetAll", "Account", new { area = "Api" })