how would one get methods exposed in a webAPI project?

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How can I programatically get a list of public methods w/parameters that are exposed in my webAPI project? I need to provide this list to our QA dept. I dont want to compile and maintain the list myself. I want to provide a link for QA to find the methods on their own. I need something like what you get when you browse to an .asmx file.

Web API provides HelpPage...for more you can look at this article: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yaohuang1/archive/2012/08/15/introducing-the-asp-net-web-api-help-page-preview.aspx — Kiran, Sep 26 '13 at 21:02
Note that the above video is more than year old, but it could still give you some useful info. — Kiran, Sep 26 '13 at 21:03

Marius Schulz · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-28T09:10:30.510

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ASP.NET Web API lets you create a help page automatically. That help pages documents all endpoints provided by your API. Please refer to this blog post: Creating Help Pages for ASP.NET Web API.

You can, of course, create an entirely custom documentation by leveraging the IApiExplorer interface.

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answered Sep 26 '13 at 22:09

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Dmitresky · Answer 2 · 2013-09-26T21:40:16.983

You may try something like this:

public static void Main() 
    {
        Type myType =(typeof(MyTypeClass));
        // Get the public methods.
        MethodInfo[] myArrayMethodInfo = myType.GetMethods(BindingFlags.Public|BindingFlags.Instance|BindingFlags.DeclaredOnly);
        Console.WriteLine("\nThe number of public methods is {0}.", myArrayMethodInfo.Length);
        // Display all the methods.
        DisplayMethodInfo(myArrayMethodInfo);
        // Get the nonpublic methods.
        MethodInfo[] myArrayMethodInfo1 = myType.GetMethods(BindingFlags.NonPublic|BindingFlags.Instance|BindingFlags.DeclaredOnly);
        Console.WriteLine("\nThe number of protected methods is {0}.", myArrayMethodInfo1.Length);
        // Display information for all methods.
        DisplayMethodInfo(myArrayMethodInfo1);      
    }
    public static void DisplayMethodInfo(MethodInfo[] myArrayMethodInfo)
    {
        // Display information for all methods. 
        for(int i=0;i<myArrayMethodInfo.Length;i++)
        {
            MethodInfo myMethodInfo = (MethodInfo)myArrayMethodInfo[i];
            Console.WriteLine("\nThe name of the method is {0}.", myMethodInfo.Name);
        }
    }

I got it from here

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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Here's a quote from Scott Gu that answers your question:

Web API doesn't directly support WSDL or SOAP. You can use the WCF REST support if you want to use a WCF/WSDL based model to support both SOAP and REST though.

Your question was asked and answered here as well: ASP.NET Web API interface (WSDL)

Hope that helps.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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