Nested resources in ASP.net MVC 4 WebApi

Question

Is there a better way in the new ASP.net MVC 4 WebApi to handle nested resources than setting up a special route for each one? (similar to here: ASP.Net MVC support for Nest

Answer 1

Since Web API 2 you can use Route Attributes to define custom routing per Method, allowing for hierarchical routing

public class CustomersController : ApiController
{
    [Route("api/customers/{id:guid}/products")]
    public IEnumerable GetCustomerProducts(Guid id) {
       return new Product[0];
    }
}

You also need to initialize Attribute Mapping in WebApiConfig.Register(),

  config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();