Domain based routing with ASP.NET Web API
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Imagine you are building an API which is “multi-tenant”: the domain name defines the tenant or customer name and should be passed as a route value to your API. An example would be http://customer1.mydomain.com/api/v1/users/1. Customer 2 can use the same API, using http://customer2.mydomain.com/api/v1/users/1. How would you solve routing based on a (sub)domain in your ASP.NET Web API projects?
Almost 2 years ago (wow, time flies), I’ve written a blog post on ASP.NET MVC Domain Routing. Unfortunately, that solution does not work out-of-the-box with ASP.NET Web API. The good news is: it almost works out of the box. The only thing required is adding one simple class:
1 public class HttpDomainRoute 2 : DomainRoute 3 { 4 public HttpDomainRoute(string domain, string url, RouteValueDictionary defaults) 5 : base(domain, url, defaults, HttpControllerRouteHandler.Instance) 6 { 7 } 8 9 public HttpDomainRoute(string domain, string url, object defaults) 10 : base(domain, url, new RouteValueDictionary(defaults), HttpControllerRouteHandler.Instance) 11 { 12 } 13 }
Using this class, you can now define subdomain routes for your ASP.NET Web API as follows:
1 RouteTable.Routes.Add(new HttpDomainRoute( 2 "{controller}.mydomain.com", // without tenant 3 "api/v1/{action}/{id}", 4 new { id = RouteParameter.Optional } 5 )); 6 7 RouteTable.Routes.Add(new HttpDomainRoute( 8 "{tenant}.{controller}.mydomain.com", // with tenant 9 "api/v1/{action}/{id}", 10 new { id = RouteParameter.Optional } 11 ));
And consuming them in your API controller is as easy as:
1 public class UsersController 2 : ApiController 3 { 4 public string Get() 5 { 6 var routeData = this.Request.GetRouteData().Values; 7 if (routeData.ContainsKey("tenant")) 8 { 9 return "UsersController, called by tenant " + routeData["tenant"]; 10 } 11 return "UsersController"; 12 } 13 }
Here’s a download for you if you want to make use of (sub)domain routes. Enjoy!
WebApiSubdomainRouting.zip (496.64 kb)
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