Greedy segment with .NET MVC 5 Attribute Routing

Question

I would like to define a route as follows -

[Route("clients/{*code}/{id:guid}/update")]
public ActionResult Update(string code, Guid id)
{
}

Code will be something like "foo/bar/xyz".

Unfortunately, out-of-the-box MVC doesn't support greedy parameters in the middle of a Route definition.

This has previously been solved using the old MVC routing conventions, however I would like to have this as a RouteAtribute defintion.

would a path of `clients/{id:guid}/update/{*code}` be acceptable? — Dave Alperovich, May 07 '15 at 18:35
@DaveAlperovich sadly not, as that would be at the end of the url. The route needs to support a greedy parameter in the middle. — jameskind, May 08 '15 at 09:30
I don't think that pattern can be implemented with route attribute — Dave Alperovich, May 08 '15 at 20:36

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 12 '15 at 14:37

As far as I know you cannot do it directly. However, you should be able to use IIS module UrlRewrite and rewrite the query with a greedy parameter in the middle to the one with a greedy parameter at the end.

So a client queries: clients/{*code}/{id:guid}/update and your web api sees clients/{id:guid}/update/{*code}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 13 '15 at 11:57

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From what I can tell there is no out-of-the-box way of doing this other than to use custom code like this example. Hope it helps.

answered May 13 '15 at 11:57

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