Single controller with multiple GET methods in ASP NET Web API

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In Web API I had a class of similar structure   public class SomeController   ApiController        WebGet UriTemplate     itemSource  Items        public SomeValue GetItems CustomParam parameter                WebGet UriTemplate     itemSource  Items  parent         public SomeValue GetChildItems CustomParam parameter  SomeObject parent              Since we could map individual methods  it was very simple to get the right request at the right place  For similar class which had only a single GET method but also had an Object parameter  I successfully used IActionValueBinder  However  in the case described above I get the following error   Multiple actions were found that match the request    SomeValue GetItems CustomParam parameter  on type SomeType  SomeValue GetChildItems CustomParam parameter  SomeObject parent  on type SomeType   I am trying to approach this problem by overriding the ExecuteAsync method of ApiController but with no luck so far  Any advice on this issue   Edit  I forgot to mention that now I am trying to move this code on ASP NET Web API which has a different approach to routing  The question is  how do I make the code work on ASP NET Web API

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If you have multiple Action within same file then pass the same argument e g  Id to all Action  This is because action only can identify Id  So instead of giving any name to argument only declare Id like this      httpget   ActionName  firstAction    firstAction string Id                  httpget   ActionName  secondAction    secondAction Int Id                   Now go to webroute config file under App-start folder and add following routes MapHttpRoute  name   firstAction   routeTemplate   api  controller   action   id    defaults  new   id   RouteParameter Optional       routes MapHttpRoute  name   secondAction   routeTemplate   api  controller   action   id    defaults  new   id   RouteParameter Optional

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Add Route function to direct the routine what you want       public class SomeController   ApiController                HttpGet             Route  GetItems            public SomeValue GetItems CustomParam parameter                    HttpGet             Route  GetChildItems            public SomeValue GetChildItems CustomParam parameter  SomeObject parent

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I find attributes to be cleaner to use than manually adding them via code  Here is a simple example    RoutePrefix  api example    public class ExampleController   ApiController        HttpGet       Route  get1  param1           api example get1 1 param2 4     public IHttpActionResult Get int param1  int param2                Object example   null          return Ok example              You also need this in your webapiconfig  config Routes MapHttpRoute      name   DefaultApi       routeTemplate   api  controller   id        defaults  new   id   RouteParameter Optional       config Routes MapHttpRoute      name   ActionApi       routeTemplate   api  controller   action   id        defaults  new   id   RouteParameter Optional        Some Good Links http   www asp net web-api overview getting-started-with-aspnet-web-api tutorial-your-first-web-api This one explains routing better  http   www asp net web-api overview web-api-routing-and-actions routing-in-aspnet-web-api

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This is the best way I have found to support extra GET methods and support the normal REST methods as well   Add the following routes to your WebApiConfig   routes MapHttpRoute  DefaultApiWithId    Api  controller   id    new   id   RouteParameter Optional    new   id      d       routes MapHttpRoute  DefaultApiWithAction    Api  controller   action     routes MapHttpRoute  DefaultApiGet    Api  controller    new   action    Get     new   httpMethod   new HttpMethodConstraint HttpMethod Get      routes MapHttpRoute  DefaultApiPost    Api  controller    new  action    Post    new  httpMethod   new HttpMethodConstraint HttpMethod Post       I verified this solution with the test class below   I was able to successfully hit each method in my controller below   public class TestController   ApiController       public string Get                 return string Empty             public string Get int id                return string Empty             public string GetAll                 return string Empty             public void Post  FromBody string value                   public void Put int id   FromBody string value                   public void Delete int id                  I verified that it supports the following requests   GET  Test GET  Test 1 GET  Test GetAll POST  Test PUT  Test 1 DELETE  Test 1   Note That if your extra GET actions do not begin with  Get  you may want to add an HttpGet attribute to the method

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I was trying to use Web Api 2 attribute routing to allow for multiple Get methods  and I had incorporated the helpful suggestions from previous answers  but in the Controller I had only decorated the  special  method  example     Route   special  id      public IHttpActionResult GetSomethingSpecial  string id          without also also placing a  RoutePrefix  at the top of the Controller    RoutePrefix  api values    public class ValuesController   ApiController   I was getting errors stating that no Route was found matching the submitted URI   Once I had both the  Route  decorating the method as well as  RoutePrefix  decorating the Controller as a whole  it worked

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Couldn t make any of the above routing solutions work -- some of the syntax seems to have changed and I m still new to MVC -- in a pinch though I put together this really awful  and simple  hack which will get me by for now -- note  this replaces the  public MyObject GetMyObjects long id   method -- we change  id  s type to a string  and change the return type to object      GET api MyObjects 5    GET api MyObjects function public object GetMyObjects string id        id    id        Trim            Check to see if  id  is equal to a  command  we support        and return alternate data       if  string Equals id   count   StringComparison OrdinalIgnoreCase                 return db MyObjects LongCount                  We now return you back to your regularly scheduled        web service handler  more or less       var myObject   db MyObjects Find long Parse id        if  myObject    null                throw new HttpResponseException                       Request CreateResponse HttpStatusCode NotFound                        return myObject

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In VS 2019  this works with ease   Route  quot api  controller   action  quot      above the controller class  And in the code   HttpGet   ActionName  quot GetSample1 quot    public Ilist lt Sample1 gt  GetSample1         return getSample1       HttpGet   ActionName  quot GetSample2 quot    public Ilist lt Sample2 gt  GetSample2         return getSample2       HttpGet   ActionName  quot GetSample3 quot    public Ilist lt Sample3 gt  GetSample3         return getSample3       HttpGet   ActionName  quot GetSample4 quot    public Ilist lt Sample4 gt  GetSample4         return getSample4       You can have multiple gets like above mentioned

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Go from this   config Routes MapHttpRoute  API Default    api  controller   id                new   id   RouteParameter Optional       To this   config Routes MapHttpRoute  API Default    api  controller   action   id                new   id   RouteParameter Optional       Hence  you can now specify which action  method  you want to send your HTTP request to   posting to  http   localhost 8383 api Command PostCreateUser  invokes   public bool PostCreateUser CreateUserCommand command                        return true      and posting to  http   localhost 8383 api Command PostMakeBooking  invokes   public bool PostMakeBooking MakeBookingCommand command                        return true      I tried this in a self hosted WEB API service application and it works like a charm

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Have you tried switching over to WebInvokeAttribute and setting the Method to  GET    I believe I had a similar problem and switched to explicitly telling which Method  GET PUT POST DELETE  is expected on most  if not all  my methods   public class SomeController   ApiController        WebInvoke UriTemplate     itemSource  Items    Method  GET       public SomeValue GetItems CustomParam parameter                WebInvoke UriTemplate     itemSource  Items  parent    Method    GET        public SomeValue GetChildItems CustomParam parameter  SomeObject parent              The WebGet should handle it but I ve seen it have some issues with multiple Get much less multiple Get of the same return type    Edit  none of this is valid with the sunset of WCF WebAPI and the migration to ASP Net WebAPI on the MVC stack

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Specifying the base path in the  Route  attribute and then adding to the base path in the  HttpGet  worked for me  You can try       Route  quot api TestApi quot           this will be the base path     public class TestController   ApiController                HttpGet     example call   api TestApi          public string Get                         return string Empty                          HttpGet  quot  id  quot       example call   api TestApi 4          public string GetById int id    method name won t matter                       return string Empty                                 Took me a while to figure since I didn t want to use  Route  multiple times

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The lazy hurry alternative  Dotnet Core 2 2     HttpGet  method1- item     public string Method1 var item     return  hello    item     HttpGet  method2- item     public string Method2 var item     return  world    item     Calling them       localhost 5000 api controllername method1-42    hello42      localhost 5000 api controllername method2-99    world99

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Simple Alternative  Just use a query string   Routing  config Routes MapHttpRoute      name   DefaultApi       routeTemplate   api  controller   id        defaults  new   id   RouteParameter Optional        Controller  public class TestController   ApiController       public IEnumerable lt SomeViewModel gt  Get                    public SomeViewModel GetById int objectId                  Requests  GET  Test GET  Test objectId 1   Note  Keep in mind that the query string param should not be  id  or whatever the parameter is in the configured route

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Modify the WebApiConfig and add at the end another Routes MapHttpRoute like this   config Routes MapHttpRoute                  name   ServiceApi                   routeTemplate   api Service  action   id                    defaults  new   id   RouteParameter Optional                    Then create a controller like this   public class ServiceController   ApiController            HttpGet          public string Get int id                        return  object of id id                      HttpGet          public IQueryable lt DropDownModel gt  DropDowEmpresa                         return db Empresa Where x   gt  x Activo    true  Select y   gt                    new DropDownModel                                           Id   y Id                        Value   y Nombre                                            HttpGet          public IQueryable lt DropDownModel gt  DropDowTipoContacto                         return db TipoContacto Select y   gt                    new DropDownModel                                           Id   y Id                        Value   y Nombre                                            HttpGet          public string FindProductsByName                         return  FindProductsByName                 This is how I solved it  I hope it will help someone

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None of the above examples worked for my personal needs  The below is what I ended up doing    public class ContainsConstraint   IHttpRouteConstraint              public string   array   get  set        public bool match   get  set              lt summary gt          Check if param contains any of values listed in array           lt  summary gt           lt param name  param  gt The param to test  lt  param gt           lt param name  array  gt The items to compare against  lt  param gt           lt param name  match  gt Whether we are matching or NOT matching  lt  param gt      public ContainsConstraint string   array  bool match                 this array   array          this match   match             public bool Match System Net Http HttpRequestMessage request  IHttpRoute route  string parameterName  IDictionary lt string  object gt  values  HttpRouteDirection routeDirection                if  values    null     shouldn t ever hit this                                 return true           if   values ContainsKey parameterName      make sure the parameter is there              return true           if  string IsNullOrEmpty values parameterName  ToString        if the param key is empty in this case  action  add the method so it doesn t hit other methods like  GetStatus              values parameterName    request Method ToString             bool contains   array Contains values parameterName       this is an extension but all we are doing here is check if string array contains value you can create exten like this or use LINQ or whatever u like           if  contains    match     checking if we want it to match or we don t want it to match             return true          return false                        To use the above in your route use   config Routes MapHttpRoute  Default     controller   action   id    new   action   RouteParameter Optional  id   RouteParameter Optional   new   action   new ContainsConstraint  new string      GET    PUT    DELETE    POST     true        What happens is the constraint kind of fakes in the method so that this route will only match the default GET  POST  PUT and DELETE methods  The  true  there says we want to check for a match of the items in array  If it were false you d be saying exclude those in the strYou can then use routes above this default method like   config Routes MapHttpRoute  GetStatus     controller  status  status    new   action    GetStatus        In the above it is essentially looking for the following URL    http   www domain com Account Status Active or something like that   Beyond the above I m not sure I d get too crazy  At the end of the day it should be per resource  But I do see a need to map friendly urls for various reasons  I m feeling pretty certain as Web Api evolves there will be some sort of provision  If time I ll build a more permanent solution and post

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I am not sure if u have found the answer  but I did this and it works  public IEnumerable lt string gt  Get         return new string      value1    value2           GET  api values 5 public string Get int id        return  value         GET  api values 5  HttpGet  public string GetByFamily         return  Family value       Now in global asx  routes IgnoreRoute   resource  axd   pathInfo      routes MapHttpRoute      name   DefaultApi2       routeTemplate   api  controller   action        defaults  new   id   RouteParameter Optional       routes MapHttpRoute      name   DefaultApi       routeTemplate   api  controller   id        defaults  new   id   RouteParameter Optional       routes MapRoute      name   Default       url    controller   action   id        defaults  new   controller    Home   action    Index   id   UrlParameter Optional

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With the newer Web Api 2 it has become easier to have multiple get methods    If the parameter passed to the GET methods are different enough for the attribute routing system to distinguish their types as is the case with ints and Guids you can specify the expected type in the  Route     attribute  For example -     RoutePrefix  api values    public class ValuesController   ApiController           GET api values 7      Route   id int         public string Get int id               return   You entered an int -  id                  GET api values AAC1FB7B-978B-4C39-A90D-271A031BFE5D      Route   id Guid         public string Get Guid id               return   You entered a GUID -  id               For more details about this approach  see here http   nodogmablog bryanhogan net 2017 02 web-api-2-controller-with-multiple-get-methods-part-2   Another options is to give the GET methods different routes        RoutePrefix  api values        public class ValuesController   ApiController               public string Get                         return  simple get                       Route  geta            public string GetA                         return  A                       Route  getb            public string GetB                         return  B                    See here for more details - http   nodogmablog bryanhogan net 2016 10 web-api-2-controller-with-multiple-get-methods

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You need to define further routes in global asax cs like this   routes MapHttpRoute      name   Api with action       routeTemplate   api  controller   action   id        defaults  new   id   RouteParameter Optional       routes MapHttpRoute      name   DefaultApi       routeTemplate   api  controller   id        defaults  new   id   RouteParameter Optional

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By default  Route  quot api  controller  quot   will generated by  Net Core Asp Net Web API You need to modify little bit just add  Action  like  Route  quot api  controller   action  quot     I have mentioned a dummy solution     Default generated controller     Route  quot api  controller  quot   public class myApiController   Controller        HttpGet      public string GetInfo                 return  quot Information quot                 A little change would do the magic      Route  quot api  controller   action  quot    public class ServicesController   Controller        HttpGet       ActionName  quot Get01 quot        public string Get01                 return  quot GET 1 quot               HttpGet       ActionName  quot Get02 quot        public string Get02                 return  quot Get 2 quot                   HttpPost       ActionName  quot Post01 quot        public HttpResponseMessage Post01 MyCustomModel01 model                if   ModelState IsValid              return Request CreateErrorResponse HttpStatusCode BadRequest  ModelState                         DO Something            return Request CreateResonse HttpStatusCode OK   quot Optional Message quot                    HttpPost       ActionName  quot Post02 quot        public HttpResponseMessage Post02 MyCustomModel02 model                if   ModelState IsValid              return Request CreateErrorResponse HttpStatusCode BadRequest  ModelState                         DO Something            return Request CreateResonse HttpStatusCode OK   quot Optional Message quot

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In ASP NET Core 2 0 you can add Route attribute to the controller    Route  api  controller   action     public class SomeController   Controller       public SomeValue GetItems CustomParam parameter               public SomeValue GetChildItems CustomParam parameter  SomeObject parent

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