Hi,

I'm digging my way through, to get the API working. But I keep getting some error messages in Fiddler, when I test it on my developer machine and I can't figure out the reason behind I'm hoping you might be able to send me in the right direction.

I'm working directly with the c# code on my developer machine, so I haven't made any builds, dlls or xml xxxxRoutes.config file - maybe this is why?

Here is my routes definition:
namespace MarathonAPI {     public class RouteRegistrar : IRegisterRoutes     {         public void Register(HttpConfiguration config)         {             // api routes             config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(                 name: "MarathonAPI",                 routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",                 defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }             );         }         public void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)         {             //mvc routes         }         public void RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilterCollection filters)         {         }     } }
 

And here is the error message, where it seems to find my controller twice:
{"Message":"An error has occurred.","ExceptionMessage":"Multiple types were found that match the controller named 'races'. This can happen if the route that services this request ('api/{controller}/{id}') found multiple controllers defined with the same name but differing namespaces, which is not supported.\r\n\r\nThe request for 'races' has found the following matching controllers:\r\nMarathonAPI.RacesController\r\nRacesController","ExceptionType":"System.InvalidOperationException","StackTrace":"   at System.Web.Http.Dispatcher.DefaultHttpControllerSelector.SelectController(HttpRequestMessage request)\r\n   at System.Web.Http.Dispatcher.HttpControllerDispatcher.<SendAsync>d__1.MoveNext()"}

It's ok if you can't, but maybe you can give some sorts of hint..

Best regards
Lars

All right, thanks for super fast response!

I thought I had come around the double pattern, but that sounds as the reason for it finding it twice.

Actually I have many class-files running under my own namespaces to support my ascx-files. None of these are build/compiled - they just exist in the App_Code folder - and my site runs nicely. But I guess I have to learn that part too for the API to work.

I need to find a way to build only the api files using includes, I guess??

Thanks a lot Joe - you always get me going in the right direction.

Lars

Hi again,

I'm considering to use this approach: http://jasonwatmore.com/post/2014/12/01/Web-API-2-Basic-HTTP-Authentication-Example.aspx

Here I will replace the examples' authorization with a password check against the mojoportal database using the functionality of the 
mojoMembershipProvider and possibly the mojoRoleProvider as well.

Using the approach I should be able to decorate my api controllers with [Authorize] including roles/specific users etc. In that way it should be possible to separate the Authorization process from the Authorize on each controller...

Do you see any conflicts or problems using this approach with MojoPortal and the way security is handled?

Best regards
Lars