Web API 2 giving me a 404 on a long id paramter - asp.net-web-api2

I'm using Web API 2 (with MVC 5) to access some data from a MongoDb store. This is the action/method:
[Route("api/container/children/{parentId}")]
[HttpGet]
public HttpResponseMessage GetChildren(String parentId) {
ObjectId containerId;
if (!ObjectId.TryParse(parentId, out containerId)) {
IEnumerable<Container> containers = this.Connection.GetCollection<Container>().FindAs<Container>(Query.EQ(Container.FieldNames.ParentId, containerId));
return this.Request.CreateResponse<Container[]>(HttpStatusCode.OK, containers.ToArray());
}
return this.Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.NotFound);
}
Calling the method from jQuery with a $.get keep getting me a 404 when calling with the parameter ObjectId.Empty (which is 000000000000000000000000), so calling this Url gives me a 404:
/api/container/children/000000000000000000000000
but calling this url works fine:
/api/container/children/0000000000000000
is there some sort of limit to the length of the (id) parameter on Web API 2?

This is not a WebAPI problem.
The bug in the code is actually very simple. Remove the not (!) operator in the if condition
[Route("api/container/children/{parentId}")]
[HttpGet]
public HttpResponseMessage GetChildren(String parentId) {
ObjectId containerId;
if (ObjectId.TryParse(parentId, out containerId)) {
...
}
return this.Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.NotFound);
}

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