I have two different controller --> Controller A,Controller B
And I have different methods each controller and their return values IHttpActionResult (Method A controller A ,Method B and Controller B)
How can I access another controller method and take its content from another controller
Controller B ,and Inside Method B
IHttpActionResult result = ControllerA.MethodA()
and I want to read result.content inside controller B
When request comes, only controller which should process request is instantiated automatically. You can instantiate second controller manually, but I would recommend to move MethodA functionality either to base controller class
public class BaseController : ApiController
{
// ...
public IHttpActionResult MethodA(int id)
{
var foo = repository.Get(id);
if (foo == null)
return NotFound();
return Ok(foo);
}
}
public class ControllerA : BaseController
{
//...
}
public class ControllerB : BaseController
{
public IHttpActionResult MethodB(int id)
{
var result = MethodA();
//..
}
}
or move common logic to separate class (e.g. service), so you would be able to call it from both controllers.
public class ControllerA : ApiController
{
private IFooService fooService;
public ControllerA(IFooService fooService)
{
this.fooService = fooService;
}
public IHttpActionResult MethodA(int id)
{
// use fooService.Method()
}
}
public class ControllerB : ApiController
{
private IFooService fooService;
public ControllerB(IFooService fooService)
{
this.fooService = fooService;
}
public IHttpActionResult MethodB(int id)
{
// use fooService.Method()
}
}
I would consider using a common base class for the two controllers (if there is a method you want to use on both)
for example
public abstract class MyBaseController
{
public void CommonMethod()
{
// Do something here
}
}
then use them like
public class ControllerA : MyBaseController
{
public void MethodA()
{
base.CommonMethod();
// Do something else
}
}
public class ControllerB : MyBaseController
{
public void MethodB()
{
base.CommonMethod();
// Do Something else
}
}
1) You can use static class and static method inside to share it for another controllers
public static class CommonMethods
{
public static string SomeMethod(string s)
{
string RetString;
...
return (RetString);
}
}
Now you can use it in any controllers
string SomeMethodResult = CommonMethods.SomeMethod("Say Hello");
2) And another method is to create an instance of a controller class and call instances methods:
public class V1Controller : ApiController
{
public void Put(int id, [FromBody]string value)
{
HomeController hc = new HomeController();
hc.SomeMethod();
}
}
AController aController = new AController();
var getResponse = aController.YourMethod(values);
If your method returns Json then you can easily solve it with
JavaScriptSerializer().Deserialize
