c# - How do I write REST service to support multiple Get Endpoints in .net MVC Web API? -

so familiar how write default get, post, put, delete

//get api/customer public string get(){}  //get api/customer/id public string get(int id){}  //post api/customer  public void post([frombody]string value){}  //put api/customer/id public void put(int id, [frombody]string value){}  //delete api/customer/id  public void delete(int id){} 

but how write add endpoint w/o having create whole new controller? want grab customer's metadata? need make changes routeconfig? if how that? , how use new route in javascript?

//get api/customer/getmetadata  public string getmetadata(){  } 

you use attribute route. attribute added in webapi 20 , can use @ method level define new route or more routes , way use [route("url/route1/route1")]:

using 1 of examples above like:

//get api/customer/getmetadata [route("api/customer/getmetadata")] public string get2(){       //your code goes here } 

if declaring several routes in class can use routeprefix attribute [routeprefix("url")] @ class level. set new base url methods in controller class.

for example:

[routeprefix("api2/some")] public class somecontroller : apicontroller {     // api2/some     [route("")]     public ienumerable<some> get() { ... }      // api2/some/5      [route("{id:int}")]     public get(int id) { ... }   } 

note: in example above showed 1 example route allowed set type constraints well.