How to Redirect in ASPNET Web API

Question

Is there a Web API controller method equivalent to the MVC controller method RedirectToAction? I would like to call one method from another, but retain the filter actions for the secondary method.

• Dennis Traub: This might answer your question: stackoverflow.com/questions/16295597/…
• Eric: The different actions have different parameters. How would I be able to set the parameters on the secondary action using a header based redirect? Making a direct class call would not allow me to make use of the existing action filters. Or am I approaching this incorrectly? Should I instead be looking to custom routing, instead?

Answer 1

Is there a Web API controller method equivalent to the MVC controller method RedirectToAction?

You could set the Location header:

public HttpResponseMessage Get()
{
 var response = Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.Found);
 response.Headers.Location = new Uri("http://www.google.com");
 return response;
}

• Eric: The two actions have different parameters. How would I be able to set the values for the parameters for the secondary action using the header redirect?
• Darin Dimitrov: Just use the Url helper: response.Headers.Location = new Uri(Url.Action("SomeAction", "SomeController", new { foo = "bar" }));.
• Eric: This was very close to satisfying my needs. My case, however, requires the variable to be a POST. If that were not the case, this solution would prove very interesting (though WebAPI doesn't have Url.Action). Nonetheless, this is by far the best answer....

Answer 2

You can check this for redirecting a page from a controller in web api

[Route("Report/MyReport")]
public async Task<IHttpActionResult> getReport() {
 string url = "https://localhost:44305/Templates/ReportPage.html";
 System.Uri uri = new System.Uri(url);
 return Redirect(uri);
}

• Moumit: Edit your last answer rather than posting a new one
• Debendra Dash: i have deleted that.