How do I route a .NET core API request to a specific controller method?

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I would like to group my API actions into a small set of controllers so for example my KeyContoller would have get requests for the JWT Token and for the API Public key. The documentation I have read so far doesn't appear to allow that level of granularity and suggests seperate controllers.

What I have tried:

For the moment I can get by because the method signatures are different but I'm not happy with that. This is the controller code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;

namespace CMDS.Controllers
{
    [Route("CMDS/[controller]")]
    [ApiController]
    public class KeyController : ControllerBase
    {
        [HttpGet]
        public IActionResult GetPublicKey()
        {
            object returnData;
            returnData = "CMDS Public Key";
            return Ok(returnData);
        }
        [HttpGet("{AuthString}")]
        public IActionResult GetJWTToken(string AuthString)
        {
            object returnData;
            returnData = "JWT Token";
            return Ok(returnData);
        }
    }
}

Here are sample calls hitting each method:

for GetPublicKey

Invoke-RestMethod http://localhost:5000/CMDS/Key

for GetJWTToken

Invoke-RestMethod http://localhost:5000/CMDS/Key/"dDSD"

Posted 3-Mar-19 20:37pm

Ger Hayden

Updated 3-Mar-19 21:16pm

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Wastedtalent · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-03T21:16:00

I'm not sure if I understood quite what your after, but you can specify the get method signatures such as:

[HttpGet("GetPublicKey")]
public IActionResult GetPublicKey()
{
    object returnData;
    returnData = "CMDS Public Key";
    return Ok(returnData);
}
[HttpGet("GetJWTToken/{AuthString}")]
public IActionResult GetJWTToken(string AuthString)
{
    object returnData;
    returnData = "JWT Token";
    return Ok(returnData);
}

Which would allow:

Invoke-RestMethod http://localhost:5000/CMDS/Key/GetPublicKey

Invoke-RestMethod http://localhost:5000/CMDS/Key/GetJWTToken/"dDSD"