V14: Reintroduce umbraco api controller as obsolete

src/Umbraco.Cms.Api.Management/Routing/BackOfficeAreaRoutes.cs

@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@ namespace Umbraco.Cms.Api.Management.Routing;
 /// </summary>
 public sealed class BackOfficeAreaRoutes : IAreaRoutes
 {
-    private readonly GlobalSettings _globalSettings;
-    private readonly IHostingEnvironment _hostingEnvironment;
     private readonly IRuntimeState _runtimeState;
     private readonly string _umbracoPathSegment;
 
@@ -32,10 +30,18 @@ public BackOfficeAreaRoutes(
         IHostingEnvironment hostingEnvironment,
         IRuntimeState runtimeState)
     {
-        _globalSettings = globalSettings.Value;
-        _hostingEnvironment = hostingEnvironment;
         _runtimeState = runtimeState;
-        _umbracoPathSegment = _globalSettings.GetUmbracoMvcArea(_hostingEnvironment);
+        _umbracoPathSegment = globalSettings.Value.GetUmbracoMvcArea(hostingEnvironment);
+    }
+
+    [Obsolete("Use non-obsolete constructor. This will be removed in Umbraco 15.")]
+    public BackOfficeAreaRoutes(
+        IOptions<GlobalSettings> globalSettings,
+        IHostingEnvironment hostingEnvironment,
+        IRuntimeState runtimeState,
+        UmbracoApiControllerTypeCollection apiControllers) : this(globalSettings, hostingEnvironment, runtimeState)
+    {
+
     }
 
     /// <inheritdoc />

src/Umbraco.Core/UmbracoApiControllerTypeCollection.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+using Umbraco.Cms.Core.Composing;
+
+namespace Umbraco.Cms.Core;
+
+[Obsolete("This will be removed in Umbraco 15.")]
+public class UmbracoApiControllerTypeCollection : BuilderCollectionBase<Type>
+{
+    public UmbracoApiControllerTypeCollection(Func<IEnumerable<Type>> items)
+        : base(items)
+    {
+    }
+}

src/Umbraco.Web.Common/Attributes/UmbracoApiControllerAttribute.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+using Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.ApplicationModels;
+
+namespace Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.Attributes;
+
+
+[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Class)]
+[Obsolete("No-op attribute. Will be removed in Umbraco 15.")]
+public sealed class UmbracoApiControllerAttribute : Attribute
+{
+}

src/Umbraco.Web.Common/Controllers/UmbracoApiController.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+using Umbraco.Cms.Core.Composing;
+
+namespace Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.Controllers;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     Provides a base class for auto-routed Umbraco API controllers.
+/// </summary>
+[Obsolete("""
+WARNING
+The UmbracoAPIController does not work exactly as in previous versions of Umbraco because serialization is now done using System.Text.Json.
+Please verify your API responses still work as expect.
+
+We recommend using regular ASP.NET Core ApiControllers for your APIs so that OpenAPI specifications are generated.
+Read more about this here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/web-api/
+
+UmbracoAPIController will be removed in Umbraco 15.
+""")]
+public abstract class UmbracoApiController : UmbracoApiControllerBase, IDiscoverable
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="UmbracoApiController" /> class.
+    /// </summary>
+    protected UmbracoApiController()
+    {
+    }
+}

src/Umbraco.Web.Common/Controllers/UmbracoApiControllerBase.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authorization;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
+using Umbraco.Cms.Core.Features;
+using Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.Attributes;
+using Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.Authorization;
+
+namespace Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.Controllers;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     Provides a base class for Umbraco API controllers.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+///     <para>These controllers are NOT auto-routed.</para>
+///     <para>The base class is <see cref="ControllerBase" /> which are netcore API controllers without any view support</para>
+/// </remarks>
+[Authorize(Policy = AuthorizationPolicies.UmbracoFeatureEnabled)]
+[UmbracoApiController]
+[Obsolete("This will be removed in Umbraco 15.")]
+public abstract class UmbracoApiControllerBase : ControllerBase, IUmbracoFeature
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="UmbracoApiControllerBase" /> class.
+    /// </summary>
+    protected UmbracoApiControllerBase()
+    {
+    }
+}

src/Umbraco.Web.Common/Controllers/UmbracoApiControllerTypeCollectionBuilder.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+using Umbraco.Cms.Core;
+using Umbraco.Cms.Core.Composing;
+
+namespace Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.Controllers;
+
+[Obsolete("This will be removed in Umbraco 15.")]
+public class UmbracoApiControllerTypeCollectionBuilder : TypeCollectionBuilderBase<
+    UmbracoApiControllerTypeCollectionBuilder, UmbracoApiControllerTypeCollection, UmbracoApiController>
+{
+    protected override UmbracoApiControllerTypeCollectionBuilder This => this;
+}

src/Umbraco.Web.Common/DependencyInjection/UmbracoBuilderExtensions.cs

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 using Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.AspNetCore;
 using Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.Blocks;
 using Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.Configuration;
+using Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.Controllers;
 using Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.DependencyInjection;
 using Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.FileProviders;
 using Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.Helpers;
@@ -287,6 +288,10 @@ public static IUmbracoBuilder AddWebComponents(this IUmbracoBuilder builder)
         builder.Services.AddUnique<IUmbracoContextFactory, UmbracoContextFactory>();
         builder.Services.AddUnique<IBackOfficeSecurityAccessor, BackOfficeSecurityAccessor>();
 
+        var umbracoApiControllerTypes = builder.TypeLoader.GetUmbracoApiControllers().ToList();
+        builder.WithCollectionBuilder<UmbracoApiControllerTypeCollectionBuilder>()
+            .Add(umbracoApiControllerTypes);
+
         builder.Services.AddSingleton<UmbracoRequestLoggingMiddleware>();
         builder.Services.AddSingleton<PreviewAuthenticationMiddleware>();
         builder.Services.AddSingleton<UmbracoRequestMiddleware>();

src/Umbraco.Web.Common/Extensions/LinkGeneratorExtensions.cs

@@ -12,6 +12,36 @@ namespace Umbraco.Extensions;
 
 public static class LinkGeneratorExtensions
 {
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Return the Url for a Web Api service
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <typeparam name="T">The <see cref="UmbracoApiControllerBase" /></typeparam>
+    [Obsolete("This will be removed in Umbraco 15.")]
+    public static string? GetUmbracoApiService<T>(this LinkGenerator linkGenerator, string actionName, object? id = null)
+        where T : UmbracoApiControllerBase => linkGenerator.GetUmbracoControllerUrl(
+        actionName,
+        typeof(T),
+        new Dictionary<string, object?> { ["id"] = id });
+
+    [Obsolete("This will be removed in Umbraco 15.")]
+    public static string? GetUmbracoApiService<T>(this LinkGenerator linkGenerator, string actionName, IDictionary<string, object?>? values)
+        where T : UmbracoApiControllerBase => linkGenerator.GetUmbracoControllerUrl(actionName, typeof(T), values);
+
+    [Obsolete("This will be removed in Umbraco 15.")]
+    public static string? GetUmbracoApiServiceBaseUrl<T>(
+        this LinkGenerator linkGenerator,
+        Expression<Func<T, object?>> methodSelector)
+        where T : UmbracoApiControllerBase
+    {
+        MethodInfo? method = ExpressionHelper.GetMethodInfo(methodSelector);
+        if (method == null)
+        {
+            throw new MissingMethodException("Could not find the method " + methodSelector + " on type " + typeof(T) +
+                                             " or the result ");
+        }
+
+        return linkGenerator.GetUmbracoApiService<T>(method.Name)?.TrimEnd(method.Name);
+    }
 
     /// <summary>
     ///     Return the Url for an Umbraco controller
@@ -101,4 +131,26 @@ public static class LinkGeneratorExtensions
 
         return linkGenerator.GetUmbracoControllerUrl(actionName, ControllerExtensions.GetControllerName(controllerType), area, values);
     }
+
+    [Obsolete("This will be removed in Umbraco 15.")]
+    public static string? GetUmbracoApiService<T>(
+        this LinkGenerator linkGenerator,
+        Expression<Func<T, object>> methodSelector)
+        where T : UmbracoApiController
+    {
+        MethodInfo? method = ExpressionHelper.GetMethodInfo(methodSelector);
+        IDictionary<string, object?>? methodParams = ExpressionHelper.GetMethodParams(methodSelector);
+        if (method == null)
+        {
+            throw new MissingMethodException(
+                $"Could not find the method {methodSelector} on type {typeof(T)} or the result ");
+        }
+
+        if (methodParams?.Any() == false)
+        {
+            return linkGenerator.GetUmbracoApiService<T>(method.Name);
+        }
+
+        return linkGenerator.GetUmbracoApiService<T>(method.Name, methodParams);
+    }
 }

src/Umbraco.Web.Common/Extensions/TypeLoaderExtensions.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+using Umbraco.Cms.Core.Composing;
+using Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.Controllers;
+
+namespace Umbraco.Extensions;
+
+public static class TypeLoaderExtensions
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Gets all types implementing <see cref="UmbracoApiController" />.
+    /// </summary>
+    public static IEnumerable<Type> GetUmbracoApiControllers(this TypeLoader typeLoader)
+        => typeLoader.GetTypes<UmbracoApiController>();
+}