Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation 4.0 Cookbook for Developing SOA Applications

Mapping URL suffix to operation parameters

Since WCF REST services use normal HTTP GET/POST for operation invocation, all the operation-wide data, like parameters and return value, are encapsulated in a HTTP message body or request header. And for WCF REST operations based on HTTP GET, the parameters are directly embedded in the URL string. By default, HTTP GET-based REST operations will use a query string for carrying input parameters. However, in real-world REST service scenarios, it is more common that we need to use more user-friendly URLs instead of the auto-generated query-string-based syntax so that the client consumers can call the REST service operations more conveniently.

In this recipe, we will demonstrate how we can use the UriTemplate ...