A bit of sleep deprived experimentation here..
I've been playing around with Backbone.js recently and are wondering if there's a way to combine the client-side routing with the server-side routing of umbraco. They way I think about it is instead of the typical RenderMvcController ActionResult being returned for a template name in the route table, the controller would redirect to UmbracoApiController to return json - in effect handing off the task of routing to templates to the backbone client.
This is where I'm stuck, redirecting to the UmbracoApiController - hoping someone can see what I've missed.
Cheers!
Edit: Forgot the error message I'm getting.
No route in the route table matches the supplied values.
public class HomeController : Umbraco.Web.Mvc.RenderMvcController
{
[HttpGet]
public ActionResult Index()
{
return RedirectToAction("GetAllProducts", "ProductsApi");
}
}
public class ProductsApiController : Umbraco.Web.WebApi.UmbracoApiController
{
public IEnumerable<string> GetAllProducts()
{
return new[] { "Table", "Chair", "Desk", "Computer", "Beer fridge" };
}
}
public static class WebApiConfig
{
public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
{
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "Umbraco/Api/{controller}/{action}/",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
);
var appXmlType = config.Formatters.XmlFormatter.SupportedMediaTypes.FirstOrDefault(t => t.MediaType == "application/xml");
config.Formatters.XmlFormatter.SupportedMediaTypes.Remove(appXmlType);
}
}
public class MvcApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication
{
protected void Application_Start()
{
AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();
WebApiConfig.Register(GlobalConfiguration.Configuration);
FilterConfig.RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
}
}
