Mvc.Versioning correct way to build routes - c#

I'm using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Versioning and I'm having difficulty setting up the routes correctly. I'm following the info from Hanselman's blog here: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ASPNETCoreRESTfulWebAPIVersioningMadeEasy.aspx
I want to access my API via URIs like so:
http://me.com/api/v1/foo/bar
http://me.com/api/v1.0/foo/bar
I have the correct attributes on my foo class:
[ApiVersion("1.0")]
[Route("api/v{version:apiVersion}/[controller]")]
The above works OK, but if I type the below (no version):
http://me.com/api/foo/bar
I get a 404 when going to the above (I assume because the route is not setup correctly for no version specified).
I tried adding this to the Startup.cs file:
//Add the versioning
services.AddApiVersioning(o => {
//Everytime a new version is created this must be updated to default to the latest version.
o.AssumeDefaultVersionWhenUnspecified = true;
o.DefaultApiVersion = new ApiVersion(1, 0);
});
But this didn't work either - so I then added the route I wanted to the top of my foo class/controller:
[Route("api/[controller]")]
This gets the desired behavior I want and I can access all routes below:
http://me.com/api/v1/foo/bar
http://me.com/api/v1.0/foo/bar
http://me.com/api/foo/bar
Is this the way it should be done? Why isn't the default version working the way Hanselman describes?

Note that Scott doesn't suggest that the URL path segmenting method will allow you to give a blank version:
To be clear, you have total control, but the result from the outside is quite clean with /api/v[1|2|3]/helloworld
Having default version specified when using URL segment mapping is not supported. See this Github issue for more information.

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AspNetCore 3.0 (upgraded from 2.2) routes seem to break when Controller Method has Async suffix

I upgraded my project to Core 3.0 from 2.2 and everything seems to work well, except one get JSON request. I have the following Js code doing an Ajax request to the Home controller:
var isLastPage = false;
var incidentModel = {
incidents: ko.observableArray([]),
getIncidents: function(a) {
var self = this;
//var $incdiv = $('#incidentsList');
$.getJSON('#Url.Action("AjaxPageAsync", "Home")', { page: page++, user: user, type: type }, function(data) {
//console.log(data);
self.incidents(self.incidents().concat(data));
if (data[0].IsLastPage) {
isLastPage = true;
}
a();
});
}
}
The Home controller is like this:
public async Task<ActionResult> AjaxPageAsync([FromQuery] string type, [FromQuery] string user, [FromQuery] int? page)
{
//Get some json data
return Json(Incident);
}
As you may tell, I'm using knockout (version 3.5.0 & jquery 3.3.0) which both are working fine on other pages. However, the getJSON request in the js code above is returning a 404:
GET https://localhost:44366/Home/AjaxPageAsync?page=1&user=&type=&_=1575386778917 404
The debug output looks similar:
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Diagnostics: Information: Request starting HTTP/2.0 GET https://localhost:44366/Home/AjaxPageAsync?page=1&user=&type=&_=1575386536876
The 2.2 version is identical and works fine. I thought it might be the number appended onto the end of the url, but that exists in 2.2 as well.
At this point, I'm thinking it's a problem with the syntax of my AjaxPageAsync task in the controller, but not sure what it should be.
Anyone know where I'm going wrong here? Thank you.
According to https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore/issues/8998, in .NET Core 3.0 Async is trimmed from Action name. Your endpoint is available at /Home/AjaxPage. You can change this behaviour by replacing
services.AddControllers();
with
services.AddControllers(options => options.SuppressAsyncSuffixInActionNames = false);
in ConfigureServices method, or just use the new routes
I would start with an elimination of getJson and what not, run a manual Postman or Curl against the endpoint to create the simplest reproducible use case to troubleshoot.
If it's still 404, you know its the configuration side of AspNetCore.
If it's not 404, you have a problem specific with an Ajax call to NetCore 3.0. That can narrow the scope of what you are searching for (and thereby your Google parameters).
My guess to the actual problem is the routing you have setup is not working or configuration has shifted in NetCore3. This usually happens when you had a routing setup in NetCore 1.0/1.2, years later migrated an example to NetCore 2.0 which was backwards compatible, years later again, bumped to NetCore 3.0, and NetCore 3 may not exactly support that routing configuration without some additional hoops to jump through.
Try creating a simple helloworld in the same controller and wiring it up. If that works you have essentially isolated the issues to the controller/method and the routing.
If didn't support it at all, it wouldn't compile though...
...so swings and roundabouts!
Also, it's Task but you are only returning Result... this is probably a simplified example but make sure you are returning/awaiting correctly.
Looking at specifically Async method tags with AspNetCore3 and there is an MvcOption that SuppressesAsyncSuffixActionName and is true by default in AspNetCore 3.0 (looks like Piotr found it first!)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.mvcoptions.suppressasyncsuffixinactionnames?view=aspnetcore-3.0

Swagger not loading - Failed to load API definition: Fetch error undefined

Trying to setup swagger in conjunction with a web application hosted on IIS express. API is built using ASP Net Core. I have followed the instructions prescribed on the relevant microsoft help page regarding Swashbuckle and ASP.NET Core.
Thus far I have got the swagger page to load up and can see that the SwaggerDoc that I have defined is loading, however no API's are present. Currently am getting the following error:
"Fetch error undefined ./swagger/v1/swagger.json"
public class Startup
{
// This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to add services to the container.
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
// services.AddDbContext<TodoContext>(opt =>
// opt.UseInMemoryDatabase("TodoList"));
services.AddMvc()
.SetCompatibilityVersion(CompatibilityVersion.Version_2_1);
// Register the Swagger generator, defining 1 or more Swagger documents
services.AddSwaggerGen(c =>
{
c.SwaggerDoc("v1", new Info { Title = "API WSVAP (WebSmartView)", Version = "v1" });
});
}
// This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to configure the HTTP request pipeline.
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env)
{
// Enable middleware to serve generated Swagger as a JSON endpoint.
app.UseSwagger();
// Enable middleware to serve swagger-ui (HTML, JS, CSS, etc.),
// specifying the Swagger JSON endpoint.
app.UseSwaggerUI(c =>
{
c.SwaggerEndpoint("./swagger/v1/swagger.json", "My API V1");
c.RoutePrefix = string.Empty;
});
app.UseMvc();
}
}
So after a lot of troubleshooting it came down to basically two things, but I feel that in general this could be helpful to someone else in the future so I'm posting an answer.
First- if ever your stuck with the aforementioned error the best way to actually see whats going on is by adding the following line to your Configure() method
app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
Now if you navigate to the 'swagger/v1/swagger.json' page you should see some more information which will point you in useful direction.
Second- now for me the error was something along the lines of
'Multiple operations with path 'some_path' and method 'GET' '
However these API were located inside of dependency libraries so I was unable to apply a solution at the point of definition. As a workaround I found that adding the following line to your ConfigureServices() method resolved the issue
services.AddSwaggerGen(c =>
{
c.SwaggerDoc("v1", new Info { Title = "API WSVAP (WebSmartView)", Version = "v1" });
c.ResolveConflictingActions(apiDescriptions => apiDescriptions.First()); //This line
});
Finally- After all that I was able to generate a JSON file but still I wasn't able to pull up the UI. In order to get this working I had to alter the end point in Configure()
app.UseSwaggerUI(c =>
{
c.SwaggerEndpoint("./v1/swagger.json", "My API V1"); //originally "./swagger/v1/swagger.json"
});
I'm not sure why this was necessary, although it may be worth noting the web application's virtual directory is hosted on IIS which might be having an effect.
NOTE: Navigating to swagger/v1/swagger.json will give you more details, for me it was causing issue due to undecorated action. This information is mentioned in comment by #MarkD
I've been working with .Net Core 3.1 and I spent some time to find out and understanding what was going on.
The issue can arise from many different reasons:
Swagger configuration errors
Classes with the same name but in different namespaces
Public methods without the rest attribute (Get, Post, etc.)
First, take a look the link below just to check if your setup is ok:
Add Swagger(OpenAPI) API Documentation in ASP.NET Core 3.1
Then,
A good tip to find out the problem is to run the application without to use IISExpress and check the console log. Any error found to generate the documentation will be displayed there.
In my case, the problems was that I had a public method (that should be private) without any rest attribute:
After change the method from public to private I solve the issue.
I was able to find the error by opening the network tab and looking at the response for swagger.json
Simply navigate to https://localhost:{PortNo}/swagger/v1/swagger.json and get much more details about the error message.
also I had similar problem in .NET 5.0, I solved below way:
I added this line as attribute over controller:
[Consumes("application/json")]
I've been working with .NET 5 and I spent some time trying to understand what was going on.
I got an error like the one below:
Then I resolved this problem by the following:
Open startup.cs file
Add the following code in Configure method
if (env.IsDevelopment())
{
app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
app.UseSwagger(c =>
{
c.RouteTemplate = "/swagger/{documentName}/swagger.json";
});
app.UseSwaggerUI(c => c.SwaggerEndpoint("/swagger/v1/swagger.json", "API v1"));
}
And in ConfigureServices method
services.AddSwaggerGen(c =>
{
c.SwaggerDoc("v1", new OpenApiInfo { Title = "API", Version = "v1" });
c.ResolveConflictingActions(apiDescriptions => apiDescriptions.First());
});
Thanks to TheCodeBuzz for Resolved: Failed to load API definition (undefined /swagger/v1/swagger.json)
Note the difference between the RouteTemplate string and the SwaggerEndpoint string. One uses {documentName} and the other uses "v1" as a literal.
I've come across the same error before, after struggling to find the reason, I discovered that one of my API in one of my controllers have no HTTP verb as an attribute, So I fixed it by putting [HttpGet] on my API.
So here is my advice, check your API controllers, maybe you forget the same thing as me!
Take a look at my code, I realized that I should change this :
public async Task<Product> ProductDetail(int id)
{
return await _productQueries.GetProductDetail(id);
}
to this:
[Route("ProductDetail")]
[HttpPost]
public async Task<Product> ProductDetail(int id)
{
return await _productQueries.GetProductDetail(id);
}
I had similar issue, I solved it using the Route attribute on the offending controller method:
[HttpGet, Route("Throw")]
public ActionResult<string> Throw()
{
_logger.LogInformation("I think I am going to throw up");
throw new NotSupportedException("For testing unhandled exception logging.");
}
I felt that ResolveConflictingActions may potentially sweep a real issue under the rug.
I had two issues that caused the same error.
I have two classes with the same name under two different namespaces. Swagger could not reconcile this when generating the swagger doc. To fix it I added the line options.CustomSchemaIds(x => x.FullName);
See explanation here
I had a method without an [HttpGet] annotation. Swagger needs the HTTP endpoints to be explicitly defined.
I found both issues by inspecting the Output in visual studio after the API loaded.
I just spent two hours on this issue, but my cause was entirely different, it had NOTHING to do with routes or annotations. I had 2 classes with the same name (but different namespaces): MyProject.Common.ClassName and MyProject.Api.ClassName. Swagger/swashbuckle couldn't tell the difference between the two, so I got that useless error.
Those 2 hours were spent trial-and-error commenting out controllers and endpoints, to finally find 3 endpoints offending endpoints. All 3 endpoints had different routes, different (or no) custom authorization, and different method names. It turned out that all 3 endpoints either accepted a parameter, or returned an object, that contained the API version of my class. Nowhere was the Common version used. Swagger couldn't tell them apart, and puked all over itself.
Why oh why can't Swagger or Swashbuckle provide actual error messages? Would have saved me a couple of hours...
I just forgot to add HTTP attributes in my controller as soon as I add HTTP attribute it works like a charm for me.
Source : https://www.benday.com/2020/12/16/webapi-core-swagger-failed-to-load-api-definition-error/
Here we go:
I created WEB Controller instead of WEB API Controller. That makes this kind of error.
During creation of new Controller, make sure that you created right WEB API controller.
Surely it is one of the Controller's method that is faulty. To get the method, at times you might need to take out all your controllers, Try and insert them one after the other then you will test along to find the Controller with bugs.
For ex. If you have like 3Controllers say
>Controller
>>>AuthController
>>>UserController
>>>HomeController
Take two out of the controllers out and test the controller by adding one controller after each successful testing. With that you will know the controller that has a faulty method.
>Controller
>>>AuthController
If the methods in AuthenController is fine, It will run, If not Check the methods.
>Controller
>>>AuthController
>>>UserController
and carry out the next check on the controller like that of Authen.
I had the same problem, so I checked it using inspect element on the browser. The "Console" tab shows the file where the problem originated from (v1/swagger/json:1). Opening it by clicking it showed that one of the helper methods I used in my controller was "Public". Changing it to "Private" fixed the problem for me.
This page also has good tips:
https://btrehberi.com/swagger-failed-to-load-api-definition-fetch-error-undefined-hatasi-cozumu/yazilim/
Swagger in my case needed [HttpAction] with all public members in controller. Unfortunately I misspelled constructor name and since it was public, was throwing this error.
For ASP.NET Core 3.1 I had to ensure the verb were not ambiguous and I found this out by first running the API project without IIS in VS2019 (Green Arrow > left-click the carrot icon and select the name of the project this causes a console window to appear on start up so you can inspect what's happening and see errors).
[HttpGet("MyEndPointA")
Then Swagger is able to generate the documentation correctly.
Solved issue in dotNet 6! Just change the attribute order of [ApiController]
In my case, there were 2 methods in the Controller class, which had the same annotations, and URL. (Our team was using Entity Framework, ASP.NET and Swagger.)
[HttpGet("GetMyGreatData/{patientId}")]
[ValidatePatient]
public async Task<ActionResult<ServiceResponse<IEnumerable<MyGreatModel>>>> GetMyGreatData(
[FromRoute] int patientId, int offset = 0, int limit = 0)
{
//method details...
}
[HttpGet("GetMyGreatData/{patientId}")]
[ValidatePatient]
public async Task<ActionResult<ServiceResponse<IEnumerable<MyGreatModel>>>> GetMyGreatData(
[FromRoute] int patientId,
[FromQuery] DateTimeOffset? startdate = null,
[FromQuery] DateTimeOffset? endDate = null,
int offset = 0,
int limit = 0)
{
//method details...
}
deleting one method solved the issue for me.
I was having the same issue, the base controller was not decorated with Http and removing that has made it work.
This error can happen when you deploy an App Service to Azure. I've redeployed the App Service to Azure and the error disappeared.
When this happened to me, I tracked it down to URL path param having an underscore which it's compatible with the asp generator
Changing this:
/block-content/{machine_name}:
To this
/block-content/{machineName}:
Solved it for me
<b>make sure the name "v1" matches the path in the swagger endpoint</b>
<p>
services.AddSwaggerGen(c =>
{
c.SwaggerDoc("v1", new OpenApiInfo {
Title = "ODAAPP",
Version = "v1" });
});
</p>
<br/>
app.UseSwaggerUI(c => c.SwaggerEndpoint("/swagger/v1/swagger.json",
"ODAAPP v1"));
enter code here
This will also happen if you use same route for multiple action methods (Overloading is OK)
In my case, the project was configured to authenticate using identity server 4 using AddPolicy() at startup.cs and there were usages of [Authorize]
I removed the things for startup.cs and usages of [Authorize]
Will update more soon
In my case I had two identicall inner classes.
Extracted them to a single one refactored the namespaces and voilá, all returned to work properly.
I have experienced the same error when I was using Swagger and also Microsoft.AspNetCore.OData. I usually try to use the latest version - but bringing it down to v 7.5.12 - did solve my issue.
Also adding following to every Action method in the Controller, makes it work with OData v8.x too: [HttpGet], [HttpPost], or [ApiExplorerSettings(IgnoreApi = true)]
I had a similar Fetch error 404 swagger/v1/swagger.json, when trying to integrate Swagger documentation in ASP.NET Core 3.1 Web API project. I tried almost all of the above suggestions but failed.
After an hour of hit-and-trial, I decided to give NSwag a try using this reference, instead of Swashbuckle and it just worked like a charm :)
I got the similar issues - the root cause is I forgot to add the annotations :-(
Reasons for this Error
i resolved this issue by this way
Use [HttpGet] attribute above the api controller method.
And, because of different versions of swashbuckle, these errors may come.
you should use the correct swagger endpoint url
v1/swagger.json or swagger/v1/swagger.json
choose above one based on the version you are using.
Note:
Use this url for reference https://myget.org/feed/domaindrivendev/package/nuget/Swashbuckle.AspNetCore.Swagger/6.2.3-preview-1963
Refer the official swagger documentation.
lot of information is there with crystal clear documents
https://swagger.io/docs/
'Multiple operations with path 'some_path' and method 'GET' '
[HttpGet]
public IActionResult Get()
{
return Ok(_userService.Get());
}
[HttpGet]
public IActionResult Get(int Id)
{
return Ok(_userService.Get(Id));
}
Just modify DataAnnotation:
[HttpGet]
public IActionResult Get()
{
return Ok(_userService.Get());
}
[HttpGet("{Id}"] //HERE
public IActionResult Get(int Id)
{
return Ok(_userService.Get(Id));
}

MVC6 Strongly typed action links and views

We are currently getting a new application stood up with MVC6. In previous versions, we used T4MVC so we could do stuff like:
#Url.Action(MVC.Home.Index);
and
return View(MVC.Home.Views.Index, model);
In the new application I have to use magic strings. I Hate magic strings. Are there any alternatives for this for MVC6?
Came across this AspNet.Mvc.TypedRouting Repository on GitHub that I thought would be useful when I eventually move over to MVC6.
Not sure if it handles views as well though
Some instructions from the readme
To use expression based link generation, you need to do the following into your Startup class:
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
{
// other configuration code
app.UseMvc(routes =>
{
routes.UseTypedRouting();
});
}
Basically, you can do the following:
// generating link without parameters - /Home/Index
urlHelper.Action<HomeController>(c => c.Index());
// generating link with parameters - /Home/Index/1
urlHelper.Action<HomeController>(c => c.Index(1));
// generating link with additional route values - /Home/Index/1?key=value
urlHelper.Action<HomeController>(c => c.Index(1), new { key = "value" });
// generating link where action needs parameters to be compiled, but you do not want to pass them - /Home/Index
// * With.No<TParameter>() is just expressive sugar, you can pass 'null' for reference types but it looks ugly
urlHelper.Action<HomeController>(c => c.Index(With.No<int>()));

Override webforms with MVC routing

I am working on an existing ASP.NET webforms project - slowly updating to MVC. I am trying to conditionally override some of the existing webforms pages by routing to new MVC controllers. I can easily route an "example.aspx" URL to an MVC controller, but it doesn't work if there is an existing "example.aspx" file.
Example code:
routes.MapRoute
(
name: "example",
url: "example.aspx",
defaults: new
{
controller = "Example",
action = "Index"
}
constraints: new { useMvc= "1" }
);
The code above works fine, and routes to the controller as expected, unless there is an existing "example.aspx" file in my solution - in which case it routes to that instead. But that's exactly what I'm trying to override.
Are existing webform routes given preferential treatment? Is there some way to circumvent this?
I've found mechanisms to do the reverse by using MapPageRoute(), but as far as I can see, that doesn't help me.
You can configure your application to ignore specific routes that your are handling through MVC. You could add the following line before registering a new route:
routes.IgnoreRoute("{*path}/example.aspx");
Hope this helps.
I haven't solved the problem as stated, but I've found a work-around that will accomplish the same result.
1) I renamed the "example.aspx" file to something else "foo.aspx"
2) Added the MapRoute() similar to my original question (with the constraint)
3) Used MapPageRoute() to route all other "example.aspx" calls to "foo.aspx"
I also ended up having to use the QueryStringConstraint logic as described by
another stackoverflow answer: but that's a separate issue.
I'll leave this question open for a few more days to see if there is a "real" solution before marking my own answer.

Hide Area in URL using AttributeRouting

We are using Areas to version an API written in ASP.NET MVC3 with AttributeRouting to define our routes.
Right now we have a "v1" area that is our first version of API. When we got to v2, we will copy over v1 and make modifications.
I want to use the same versioning for a website and I don't want the /v1 in the route.
My question is, how do I hide the Area in my URL so I can call
mywebsite.com/Users/1
instead of
mywebsite.com/v1/Users/1
Here is what I have in my controller
[RouteArea("/")]
public class HomeController : Controller
{
//
// GET: /v1/Home/
[GET("")]
public ActionResult Index()
{
return View();
}
}
and here is what I get when I try to visit mywebsite.com/
Thanks in advance!
Do this:
[RouteArea("AreaName", AreaUrl = "")]
By default, areas are prefixed with the area name. The AreaUrl property lets you override that. I'll update the wiki here: https://github.com/mccalltd/AttributeRouting/wiki/Areas
Sorry for the confusion!
Also, you shouldn't add forward-slashes at the beginning or end of any urls defined via AR. Your stack trace dump highlights that MVC is looking for views in a folder named "/". If you want an empty url, just use "".

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