WCF Routes using WebAPI

Question

Is is possible to create a WCF Data Service using the pattern used by MapHttpRoute, something as follows:

routes.MapHttpRoute(
          name: "Account",
          routeTemplate: "Case/{accountname}",
          defaults: new DataServiceHostFactory()
      );

where on CreatDataSource - I could get the value of "accountname" to determine some bussiness logic?

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Haroon

Answer 1

Hi Haroon,

Welcome!

I think you can refer this blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rjacobs/archive/2010/04/05/using-system-web-routing-with-data-services-odata.aspx 

Have a nice day.

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Alan Chen[MSFT]
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Answer 2

Hi Alan,

Thanks, but I need a little more of a dynamic route.  In our enviornment we have large set of databases (in the 1,000s) that have identical schema.  Ideally the WCF DataService URI would look like

http://Server/ServiceName/{Guid or some unique Name}/EntitySet

This way I can use the same WCF Data Service and based upon {Guid or some unqiue Name} I can determine what connection string to use on DataSourceCreate.

I can offcourse can get the client to use HTTP header to pass the same information, but would prefer a dynamic routing solution.

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Haroon

Answer 3

Very similar behavior is actually implement in the demo service (http://services.odata.org/(S(ijbhhu0l0r0innwms3gkqq3z))/OData/OData.svc/). This service doesn't run against a database, but I'm sure you can easily modify it to do so.

The source code is available here: http://www.odata.org/developers/odata-sdk, in the Sample services section, Read-Write sample service.

Thanks,

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Vitek Karas [MSFT]