Aspnetcore: Can I use Areas in Asp.net core web API projects?

Created on 19 Jan 2019 · 3Comments · Source: dotnet/aspnetcore

I'm working on a project that is an Asp.net core web API project.most of my projects I did by Asp.net MVC and Core MVC, but I would do a new project based on Core Web API. in Core MVC we have Areas concept that we can create an Areas for Admin part, etc.... But I want to know Can we use Areas in Asp.net core Web API Projects? If yes how can I do it? If you're thinking about there is a better way tell me, please.

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farhadibehnam

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You can place your API controllers in an Area, just to group them. But basically you provide the route on the controller, so you can create different routes your self:
[Route("api/myarea/v1/[controller]")]

vankampenp on 19 Jan 2019

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vankampenp on 19 Jan 2019

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I have same problem I tried by putting my ApiController under my area so the structure look like below

Here is the Api controller inside

Areas/GL/Controllers

[Area("GL")] [Route("api/[controller]")] [ApiController] [HttpGet] public IActionResult Get() { return Ok("api controller"); }

But when I access my URL
http://localhost:48357/GL/Api/Get
Or
http://localhost:48357/Api/GL/Get
or
http://localhost:48357/Api/Get
I get

Status Code: 404; Not Found

Here is the code in

Startup.cs

routes.MapAreaRoute( name: "AreaGL", areaName: "GL", template: "GL/{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}" );

Please help me on this issue, what I am doing wrong here?

atifamin on 23 Apr 2019

Thanks for contacting us, @farhadibehnam.
For the controllers to be in areas you have to apply {area:exists} route constraint in your attribute route, as described https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/mvc/controllers/areas?view=aspnetcore-2.2.