Map Api port to MVC project

Question

I created an MVC project and an API.

I need to get the API when I upload the project to (F5).

Example, I created a service that is a GET in my Type table.

How I can map the API to get inside a MVC controller?

My project is Asp.Net MVC and within it I have a Web API project, the services are in the Web API and by MVC I must take the service and fill in some Views.

This method works within the API service, but now with MVC do not know how to call.

public class GetCidades
    {
        BancoContext banco = new BancoContext();

        public List<Cidade> getCidades()
        {
            var result = banco.Database.SqlQuery<Cidade>("sp_cons_cidade").ToList();

            return result;
        }
    }

How I take this service within MVC. I did this

public class GetCidades
    {
        HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
        List<Cidade> cidades = new List<Cidade>();

        public async Task<List<Cidade>> GetCidadesAsync()
        {
            string url = $"http://localhost:51381/api/";
            var response = await client.GetStringAsync(url);
            var _cidade = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Cidade>>(response);
            return _cidade;
        }
    }

But I don’t know what else to do.

Do I need to map something? Because when I give F5 up the two, right, MVC and API and from inside the MVC how do I get the API?

EDIT1

My controller inside the MVC

public class GetCidadeController : Controller
    {
        // GET: GetCidade
        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            return View();
        }

        public ActionResult GetCidades()
        {

            return View();
        }
    }

The controller of the API

[RoutePrefix("api/[controller]")]
    public class GetCidadesController : ApiController
    {
        GetCidades cidades = new GetCidades();

        [AcceptVerbs("Get")]
        public IEnumerable<Cidade> getCidades()
        {
            return cidades.getCidades().AsEnumerable().ToList();
        }

    }

Lost. I don’t even know if that’s the way to do it

Answer 1

Try pointing the browser to /api/[name of your controller, without the suffix controller]/[name of your method or action]

This is standard mapping. If you can post your Startup.Cs class and the controller here you can be more precise.

It seems to me that you are not putting your service inside a controller. In the Web.Api project, you must have a class that you inherit from Controller. In this class, a method called Get() where in this method you use your "Getcities" and return what it returns.

I think it’s missing understand how Asp.Net works, take a look at this link that can help you: https://docs.microsoft.com/pt-br/aspnet/web-api/overview/getting-started-with-aspnet-web-api/tutorial-your-first-web-api