How to change route in WebApi+Odata project

Question

I'm re-implementing WCF service and I choose to use WebAPI 2.2 + OData v4. Problem I'm facing is that I need to have route which contains '_' and I'm unable to implement it. Currently I have this:

public class AnnotationSharedWithController : ODataController
{
    ...
    [EnableQuery]
    public IQueryable<AnnotationSharedWith> Get()
    {
        return _unitOfWork.AnnotationSharedWith.Get();
    }
    ...
}

and my WebApiConfig.cs looks like this:

public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
{
    config.MapODataServiceRoute("webservice",null,GenerateEdmModel());
        config.Count();
}

private static IEdmModel GenerateEdmModel()
{
    var builder = new ODataConventionModelBuilder();
    builder.EntitySet<AnnotationSharedWith>("annotation_shared_with");
        return builder.GetEdmModel();
}

When I issue GET request I receive following error

{ "Message": "No HTTP resource was found that matches the request URI 'http://localhost:12854/annotation_shared_with'.", "MessageDetail": "No type was found that matches the controller named 'annotation_shared_with'." }

Answer 1

Your could use routing attributes to achieve this:

1. Using ODataRouteAttribute class:

   public class AnnotationSharedWithController : ODataController
   {
       [EnableQuery]
       [ODataRouteAttribute("annotation_shared_with")]
       public IQueryable<AnnotationSharedWith> Get()
       {
           //your code
       }
   }
   

2. Using ODataRoutePrefixAttribute and ODataRouteAttribute classes:

   [ODataRoutePrefixAttribute("annotation_shared_with")]
   public class AnnotationSharedWithController : ODataController
   {
       [EnableQuery]
       [ODataRouteAttribute("")]
       public IQueryable<AnnotationSharedWith> Get()
       {
           //your code
       }
   }