AmbiguousActionException: Multiple actions matched. The following actions matched route data and had all constraints satisfied

Try:

// ChangeEventsController
[HttpGet("Create/{id}")]
public IActionResult Create(Guid id)

// ProductsController
[HttpGet("CreateChangeEvent/{id}")]
public IActionResult CreateChangeEvent(Guid id)

While the most up-voted answer does solve the issue, as mentioned by @B12Toaster it would violate the rules of REST. With my answer I will try to solve the problem while remaining RESTful.


TLDR: Add the Name property to your HTTP verb attribute (GET or otherwise)

In order to get both GET to work in both controllers do this:

// ChangeEventsController
[HttpGet(Name = "Get an event")]
[Route("{id}")]
public IActionResult Create(Guid id)

// ProductsController
[HttpGet(Name = "Get a product")]
[Route("{id}")]
public IActionResult CreateChangeEvent(Guid id)

This answer explains why you can't have two paths with the same name on two different controllers in Web API. You can implement the solution discussed in the answer to avoid this problem, or you can use ServiceStack which I personally would recommend.


Long answer: Explaining how to be RESTful within Web API

First: let's focus on the controller names. The controller names should be plural and nouns only. That would result in these two controllers:

  • Events: Instead of ChangeEvents. The change can happen within a PUT, not as controller name.
  • Products

Explanation on RESTful naming standards


Second: The endpoints within a controller should be named as CRUD operations in respect to RESTful standards.

  • POST
  • GET
  • PUT
  • DELETE
  • PATCH: Optional

This is instead of Create and CreateChangeEvent. This helps you locate which verbs you're invoking. There is no need for custom naming for the operations, as there shouldn't be too many in the first place to begin with in each controller.


Third: Your routes should not have custom names for each. Again, sticking to our method names, they should be CRUD operations only.

In this case:

// EventsController
[HttpGet(Name = "Get an event")]
[Route("events/{id}")]
public IActionResult Get(Guid id)

// ProductsController
[HttpGet(Name = "Get a product")]
[Route("products/{id}")]
public IActionResult Get(Guid id)

This would result in:

  • GET for /events/{id}
  • GET for /products/{id}

Last: For GET HTTP calls, you should send your input via query rather than body. Only PUT/POST/PATCH should send a representation via body. This is part of the Roy Fieldings constraints in REST. If you want to know further, look here and here.

You can do this by adding the [FromQuery] attribute before each of the parameters.

// EventsController
[HttpGet(Name = "Get an event")]
[Route("events/{id}")]
public IActionResult Get([FromQuery] Guid id)

// ProductsController
[HttpGet(Name = "Get a product")]
[Route("products/{id}")]
public IActionResult Get([FromQuery] Guid id)

I hope this would be helpful to future readers.


If you want to use default routing , follow blew instrument:

  1. Remove [Route("[controller]")] from top of 'ChangeEvents' controller (if exists).
  2. Remove routing pattern from HttpGet

summery, try this :

// ChangeEventsController
[HttpGet]
public IActionResult Create(Guid id)

// ProductsController
[HttpGet]
public IActionResult CreateChangeEvent(Guid id)