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Attribute Route with constraint works locally but fails when deployed

I have a simple attribute route with three different path segments:

[HttpGet]
[GET("v{version:int}/{category}/{service}")]
public async Task<HttpResponseMessage> RouteMessage(
    string category, string service, int version = 1)
{
}

While the routing works when developing locally, it fails (404) when I deploy it to an IIS server.

The URL that fails:

http://example.com/v1/search/products?client=test

I'm certain it's not an IIS issue because I can still access the service using non-attribute routing (note that even though v1 isn't an int, the parameter itself has a default value):

http://example.com/api/route/?version=v1&category=search&service=products&client=test

I've installed Route Debugging and, as expected, my route does not match the attribute route even though it should.

The app-relative path is listed as ~/v1/search/products, which should match the url format v{version}/{category}/{service} ("version" is also correctly listed with an int route constraint).

Here's an image with the full debug info in case it helps.

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Solution

  • Thanks to @Kiran Challa I realized that, although similar, the built-in WebAPI attribute routing is not the same as AttributeRouting.WebApi. I switched to the built-in routing and it all works fine now.