How to register routes for Testing WebApi routes (WebApiContrib.Testing)?

[romka-04]

Probably this topic was described before but I could not find a solution.

There are two ways to registrate routes in MVC and WebApi projects:

1. MVC Project you call RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes( RouteTable.Routes ) which adds routes into routes table. This way is used in your example (here: http://www.carolynvanslyck.com/blog/2013/01/webapi-route-testing/)
2. WebApi Project by default use GlobalConfiguration.Configure( WebApiConfig.Register ). The following example shows how to register routes in unit tests file.

private HttpConfiguration _config;
[SetUp]
public void BeforeEach()
{
    _config = new HttpConfiguration();
    WebApiConfig.Register( _config );
    _config.EnsureInitialized();  // we need to call this method after all other initialization code.
}

The problem that your framework is using RouteTable to check routes. If I register routes in second way then RouteTable would be empty and route tests also would fails.

Could you please provide some link or explanation how to register WebApi routes without moving code into RouteTable.Routes method?
I'm not sure that you understand me so please ask a questions if you want.
Thanks in advance!