Convention-based Routing

In the first release of the ASP.NET Web API, the routing mechanism was convention-based. This type of routing has definition for one or more route templates in terms of parameterized strings.

This style of routing is still supported in ASP.NET Core; the following code snippet shows how to achieve this:

    public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app) 
    { 
      //Rest of code removed for brevity 
      app.UseMvc(routes => 
      { 
        // route1 
        routes.MapRoute( 
          name: "packtroute1", 
          template: "api/{controller}/{id}" 
        ); 
        // route2 
        routes.MapRoute( 
          name: "packtroute1", 
          template: "testpackt", 
          defaults: new { controller = "Books", action = "Index" } 
        ); 
      }); 
    } 

The convention...