How do I get MVC4 Web API to support HTTP Verbs and “Action” methods in the same controller?

Question

How do I setup routing to support this?

• GET /api/values/ works
• GET /api/values/1 works
• POST /api/values works
• PUT /api/values works
• DELETE /api/values works
• GET /api/values/GetSomeStuff/1 DOES NOT WORK!

If I switch the routes around, then GetSomeStuff works, but then /api/values does not work. How do I configure route to have them both work?

Example methods:

 // GET api/values
    public IEnumerable<string> Get()
    {
        return new string[] { "value1", "value2" };
    }

    // GET api/values/5
    public string Get(int id)
    {
        return "value";
    }

    // POST api/values
    public void Post([FromBody]string value)
    {
    }

    // PUT api/values/5
    public void Put(int id, [FromBody]string value)
    {
    }

    // DELETE api/values/5
    public void Delete(int id)
    {
    }

    // GET api/values/5
    [HttpGet]
    public string GetSomeStuff(int id)
    {
        return "stuff";
    }

Routes are setup like this:

config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
            name: "ActionApi",
            routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
        );

        config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
            name: "DefaultApi",
            routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
            defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
        );

Answer 1

How about instead of:

GET /api/values/GetSomeStuff/1

you designed your urls like that:

GET /api/someStuff/1

Now you could simply have a SomeStuffController and a Get(int id) action on it.

Answer 2

You could try the following routes:

        config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
            name: "DefaultController",
            routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
            defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional },
            constraints: new { id = @"^[0-9]*$" }
        );

        config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
            name: "DefaultController2",
            routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}/{id2}"
        );

and change your action method to:

    [HttpGet]
    public string GetSomeStuff(int id2)
    {
        return "stuff";
    }