Implement the ApiController

The following code example demonstrates how you can implement an Web ApiController. You can inject a parameter in the controller's constructor leveraging the Ninject bindings. For more information, see Implement the service layer with Ninject.

using System.Web.Http;
using SitefinityWebApp.Custom.Services;

namespace SitefinityWebApp.WebApiControllers
{
    public class WebApiController : ApiController
    {
        private IHelloSitefinityService service;

        public WebApiController(IHelloSitefinityService service)
        {
            this.service = service;
        }

        [HttpGet]
        public IHttpActionResult Hello()
        {
            string helloString = this.service.SayHello();
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(helloString))
            {
                return this.NotFound();
            }
            return this.Ok(helloString);
        }
    }
}

RECOMMENDATION: To make sure you can easily differentiate between the Classic MVC controllers and widget controllers, we recommend that you place the ApiController in the <root>/ApiControllers folder.

Once you build the project, the controller gets the service as a parameter to its constructor. When you request the domain/api/<ControllerName>/get route, the controller is executed by the ASP.NET pipeline and returns the corresponding string.