Web API Lowercase Route - asp.net

Question

Hy there,
I need to enforce Lowercase routes in my Web API project.
If it was an MVC project i would use something like
routes.LowercaseUrls = true;
But in Web API that property does not exists.
I tried the LowercaseRoutesMVC4 NuGet extension but my routes needs to have a custom handler so that extension does not help me.
What can I do?

Answer 1

This looks like it does what you need
public class RouteConfig
{
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional },
constraints: new { url = new LowercaseRouteConstraint() }
);
}
}
public class LowercaseRouteConstraint : IRouteConstraint
{
public bool Match(HttpContextBase httpContext, Route route, string parameterName, RouteValueDictionary values, RouteDirection routeDirection)
{
var path = httpContext.Request.Url.AbsolutePath;
return path.Equals(path.ToLowerInvariant(), StringComparison.InvariantCulture);
}
}
I found this at https://gist.github.com/benfoster/3274578#file-gistfile1-cs-L4

Answer 2

I have json config like
public class JsonConfig
{
public static void Initiliaze(HttpConfiguration config, bool isCamelCase)
{
var json = config.Formatters.JsonFormatter;
json.SerializerSettings.PreserveReferencesHandling = PreserveReferencesHandling.None;
json.SerializerSettings.ReferenceLoopHandling = ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore;
json.SerializerSettings.Formatting = Formatting.None;
if (isCamelCase)
json.SerializerSettings.ContractResolver = new CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver();
config.Formatters.Remove(config.Formatters.XmlFormatter);
}
}
You can call this method in WebApiConfig.cs like
JsonConfig.Initiliaze(config, true);