asp.net-web-api2

This question already has an answer here: WebAPI - Attribute Routing POST not working with WebAPI Cors? 1 answer I'm building an API using WEB API 2. I have the following API controller: [RoutePrefix("api/account")] public class AccountController : ApiController { [Route("login")] [HttpPost] public IHttpActionResult AuthenticateUser(string username, string password) { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(username) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(password)) { return BadRequest("You must submit username and password"); } if (!Membership.ValidateUser(username, password)) { return BadRequest("Incorrect username or

In my WebApi action method, I want to create/over-write a folder using this code: string myDir = "..."; if(Directory.Exists(myDir)) { Directory.Delete(myDir, true); } Directory.CreateDirectory(myDir); // 1 - Check the dir Debug.WriteLine("Double check if the Dir is created: " + Directory.Exists(myDir)); // Some other stuff here... // 2 - Check the dir again Debug.WriteLine("Check again if the Dir still exists: " + Directory.Exists(myDir)); Issue Strangely, sometimes right after creating the directory, the directory does not exist! Sometimes when checking the dir for the first time (where the

I searched a lot before putting the questions here but the more I search the more confused I get. So I have created an handler and I am trying to get the route like this: public class ExecutionDelegatingHandler : DelegatingHandler { protected override Task<HttpResponseMessage> SendAsync(HttpRequestMessage request, CancellationToken cancellationToken) { if (securityAuthority.VerifyPermissionToExecute(request.GetRouteData().Route.RouteTemplate, request.Headers)) { return base.SendAsync(request, cancellationToken); } else { httpResponseMessage.StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized; } } }

In my Web API project, I created sub projects (class libraries) where I handle actual data handling operations. My backend database is DocumentDB. My question is how do I tell my Web API action methods of any errors I may encounter within data methods in my class libraries? Once my Web API method knows about the error, I can just return Http status 500 or something like that but I'm not sure what I should have in the catch part (see below) and how I can notify the calling Web API method of the error encountered? --- Web API Method --- public async Task<IHttpActionResult> DoSomething(Employee

I'm using ODataConventionModelBuilder to build Edm Model for Web API OData Service like this: ODataModelBuilder builder = new ODataConventionModelBuilder(); builder.Namespace = "X"; builder.ContainerName = "Y"; builder.EntitySet<Z>("Z"); IEdmModel edmModel = builder.GetEdmModel(); Class Z is located in one assembly, and there is public class Q derived from Z located in different assembly. The ODataConventionModelBuilder will generates Edm Model that includes definition of class Q (among other derived classes) and it will be exposed with service metadata. That is undesirable in our case. When

I'm using async methods in my WebAPi controllers: public async Task<HttpResponseMessage> SampleMethod(int subscriptionNumber, DateTime departureDate) { // [...] } How do I configure the request timeout? The operation can take up to a couple of minutes and I have to make sure that the request do not timeout. In MVC there is an attribute called [AsyncTimeout] . Are there an equivalent in WebApi? Can it be configured globally? Good question, I would recommend to handle this from client side - you can always specify timeout settings in your consumer code, even if it is ajax: $.ajax({ url: "/ajax