WebAPI

Sitecore WebAPI – Hooking into the route setup

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Setting up routes in MVC and WebAPI is pretty straightforward in Sitecore provided that its done in the correct pipeline. When I first started attempting to add routes, I quickly discovered that doing this via the Global ASAX wasn’t reliable. The reason for this is that the routes are setup in the initialise pipeline.

Fortunately Sitecore has this process mapped out in the the config file so all I needed to do is swap out the DefaultRouteMapper that comes out of the box. Lets look at the entry in Sitecore:

<setting name="Sitecore.Services.RouteMapper" value="NAMESPACE.CustomRouteMapper, ASSEMBLY_NAME" />

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Sitecore WebAPI – Setting up IOC

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I’ve had the opportunity to tinker in the depths of the WebAPI in Sitecore 7.5 and 8 recently. I’ll put up a post about setting up controllers easily shortly but until then I thought I’d share how to setup IOC.

In a normal WebAPI environment, we can create our resolver and attach it to the GlobalConfiguration. However, we must remember that Sitecore uses its own pipelines for MVC and WebAPI and so setting this up in the Global ASAX won’t work.

The way I’ve done it is to change the registered WebAPI initialiser class in the Sitecore.Services.Config file found in App_Config/Include. This lets me hook directly into the entry point for Sitecore related WebAPI and adjust the configuration accordingly.

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