How to have both 'get by id' and 'get by name' routes on ASP.NET core 2.0 controller?

Question

I'm writing a small Web API controller. Currently I've routed a

[HttpGet("{id}"}]

path and it works fine: localhost:8080/Controller/1 returns the item with the id equal to 1.

The problem is that I am trying to add a 'get by name' request:

[HttpGet("{name}")]

How can I go about doing this?

Thank you for your time

Answer 1

In this exact example you can put in a route constraint indicating that id is an int. It should route correctly after that.

[HttpGet("{id:int}")]
public string GetById(int id)
{
   return id.ToString();
}

[HttpGet("{name}")]
public string GetByName(string name)
{
   return name + " name";
}