How to access data controller / data model from ApiController? - asp.net

Question

I have a ScoreDataModelsController that contains the following Action Method:
public ActionResult Getnames()
{
return View(db.ScoreDataModels.ToList());
}
In Views I have the corresponding ScoreDataModels folder containing Getnames.cshtml:
#model IEnumerable<WebApplication1.Models.ScoreDataModel>
#{
ViewBag.Title = "Get Names";
Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_emptyLayout.cshtml";
}
<table class="table">
#foreach (var item in Model)
{
<tr>
<td>
#Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.Name)
</td>
</tr>
}
</table>
This all works fine. Now I would like to make this data (i.e. Names) accessible as json/XML using REST. I have managed to get the ApiController working with the standard settings and by opening http://.../api/Andi i get the values from the string[] in XML format:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web.Http;
namespace WebApplication1.Controllers
{
public class AndiController : ApiController
{
// GET api/<controller>
public IEnumerable<string> Get()
{
return new string[] { "value1", "value2", "und en dritte" };
//Here I need help: ScoreDataModelsController sdm = new ScoreDataModelsController();
// var res = from r in sdm
}
// GET api/<controller>/5
public string Get(int id)
{
return "value";
}
// POST api/<controller>
public void Post([FromBody]string value)
{
}
// PUT api/<controller>/5
public void Put(int id, [FromBody]string value)
{
}
// DELETE api/<controller>/5
public void Delete(int id)
{
}
}
}
Now, instead of "value1, value2 ..." I would like to get the names from my ScoreDataModel / ScoreDataModelsController.
The ScoreDataModel looks like this. I have used this model to create the controller and view by scaffolding in Visual Studio:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
namespace WebApplication1.Models
{
public class ScoreDataModel
{
[Key]
public int ID { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public int Score { get; set; }
}
}
I would very much appreciate if you could lead me into the right direction to get this REST API working with my existing data controller / data model.

Answer 1

Create a central class which holds your data access logic, something like this:
public class DataRepository
{
private DatabaseContext db = new DatabaseContext();
public List<ScoreDataModel> GetNames()
{
return db.ScoreDataModels.ToList();
}
}
Now you can use this class to access your data from both the MVC controller and the api controller:
public class AndiController : ApiController
{
private DataRepository dbRepo = new DataRepository();
public IEnumerable<ScoreDataModel> Get()
{
List<ScoreDataModel> names = dbRepo.GetNames();
return names;
}
}

Answer 2

use this
var data= db.ScoreDataModels.ToList()
List<String>list=new List<String>();
foreach(var r in data)
{
list.add(r.Name);
}
return list;