RESTful url to GET resource by different fields

Question

Simple question I\'m having trouble finding an answer to..

If I have a REST web service, and my design is not using url parameters, how can I specify two different k

Answer 1

I guess technically you could have both URI's point to the same resource (perhaps with one of them as the canonical resource) but I think you wouldn't want to do this from an implementation perspective. What if there is an overlap between IDs and names?

It sure does seem like a good place to use query parameters, but if you insist on not doing so, perhaps you could do

person/{ID} 

and

personByName/{Name}