Extend ApiController

Question

As the title suggests I want to extend the ApiContoller class to include some custom properties and helper methods but whenever I try to use it for a controller I get the message Multiple actions were found that match the request:

Example Code:

public class ExtendedApiController : ApiController {
    public string SomeHelper() {
    ....
    }
}

public class AccountController : ExtendedApiContoller {
    public void Post (ModelObject obj){
        string x = SomeHelper();
        ...Bunch of business logic
    }
}

The Web Api seems to dislike me doing this for some reason or there is some other base method I need to override. The only other option I can see is tacking on extension methods to the ApiContoller but I'd like to avoid that if possible.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

ASP NET WebAPI uses convention before configuration, so it tries to find a method that begins with Get... for GET requests, Post... for POST requests and so on for PUT and DELETE.

So maybe you have 2 methods begining by Get..., Post..., Put... or Delete...