I want to have ServiceStack endpoints such as the following...
[RestService("/items/recent")]
[RestService("/items/recent/{Page}")]
[RestService("/items/popular")]
[RestService("/items/popular/{Page}")]
Since both would return a List<Item>
, I'd love to be able to have both of these in the same RestServiceBase
for easier code management. Is this possible? If so, how can I differentiate the request when it comes in to find whether it was a "recent" or "popular" request so that I can handle it appropriately?
Yes you can have multiple REST-ful paths pointing to the same web service.
If you want to leave the paths as-is you can inspect the Request Path used to invoke the service via the HttpRequest, i.e:
var httpReq = base.RequestContext.Get<IHttpRequest>();
httpReq.PathInfo //or httpReq.RawUrl, httpReq.AbsoluteUri, etc.
The way you work out what type of request it is, is by looking at the populated Request DTO - but to distinguish between /recent/ and /popular/ you should store it in another Request DTO property and then inspect its values i.e.
[RestService("/items/{Type}")]
[RestService("/items/{Type}/{Page}")]
public class Items
{
public string Type { get; set; }
public int? Page { get; set; }
}
public class ItemsService : ServiceBase<Items>
{
public override object Run(Items request)
{
if (request.Type == "recent")
if (!request.Page.HasValue)
//path 1
else
//path 2
else if (request.Type == "popular")
if (!request.Page.HasValue)
//path 3
else
//path 4
}
}
This is also similar to this StackOverflow question:
Need help on servicestack implementation