Routing with multiple Get methods in ASP.NET Web API

Question

I am using Web Api with ASP.NET MVC, and I am very new to it. I have gone through some demo on asp.net website and I am trying to do the following.

I have 4 get methods, with the following signatures

public List<Customer> Get() {     // gets all customer }  public List<Customer> GetCustomerByCurrentMonth() {     // gets some customer on some logic }  public Customer GetCustomerById(string id) {     // gets a single customer using id }  public Customer GetCustomerByUsername(string username) {     // gets a single customer using username } 

For all the methods above I would like to have my web api somewhat like as shown below

• List Get() = api/customers/
• Customer GetCustomerById(string Id) = api/customers/13
• List GetCustomerByCurrentMonth() = /customers/currentMonth
• Customer GetCustomerByUsername(string username) = /customers/customerByUsername/yasser

I tried making changes to routing, but as I am new to it, could'nt understand much.

So, please can some one help me understand and guide me on how this should be done. Thanks

Answer 1

From here Routing in Asp.net Mvc 4 and Web Api

Darin Dimitrov has posted a very good answer which is working for me.

It says...

You could have a couple of routes:

public static class WebApiConfig {     public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)     {         config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(             name: "ApiById",             routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",             defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional },             constraints: new { id = @"^[0-9]+$" }         );          config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(             name: "ApiByName",             routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}/{name}",             defaults: null,             constraints: new { name = @"^[a-z]+$" }         );          config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(             name: "ApiByAction",             routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}",             defaults: new { action = "Get" }         );     } }