Use Drum in BaseController<T> to allow generic route references

[LandryDubus]

I am using a custom DirectRouteProvider that overrides the GetActionRouteFactories method of the DefaultDirectRouteProvider in order to allow inheritance in attribute routing.

This allows me to use attribute routing in a BaseController to define route for every action that should be available to all the inheriting controllers (TestController : Basecontroller).

This works fine until I try to generate links to generic routes.

I can't name the routes dynamically based on the generic type as this is not allowed in attributes in C#.

I can't define a name for these routes as there would be many routes with the same name (for all inheriting controllers).

I thought I could use your package as Drum works well with unnamed routes, but I can't seem to find a way to use the uriMaker from inside the BaseController to reference the route from the inheriting controller in a generic way.

Is there a way out?

[anaximander23]

This pull request might be of interest. Does that look like it would solve your problem?

[LandryDubus]

Thanks for your reply.

But i don't see how this helps me resolve my problem.

What I want is to get a link for a route defined for an action of a web api controller in a inherited BaseController type.

For instance, here is a derived controller:

[RoutePrefix("api/test")]
    public class TestController : BaseController<TestCustomType> { }

Here is the base controller:

public class BaseController<T> : ApiController where T : CustomType
    {
        [Route("")]
        public T Get()
        {
            return new TestCustomType();
        }

what I want is to be able to get a link to the Get action of TestController from within the code of the Basecontroller.