Cannot implement multiple GET methods in WebApi OData - asp.net-web-api

Question

I'm using OData V3 with MVC4 Web API project .NET4.
The WebAPI register method is:
public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
{
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
);
config.Formatters.JsonFormatter.SerializerSettings.PreserveReferencesHandling =
Newtonsoft.Json.PreserveReferencesHandling.None;
ODataConventionModelBuilder builder = new ODataConventionModelBuilder();
builder.EntitySet<ClientModel>("ODClient");
builder.ComplexType<ClientStatus>();
builder.ComplexType<ClientType>();
var edmmodel = builder.GetEdmModel();
config.Routes.MapODataRoute(
routeName: "odata",
routePrefix: "odata",
model: edmmodel
);
}
The OData controller is:
[HttpGet]
[Queryable(AllowedQueryOptions = AllowedQueryOptions.All, PageSize = 25)]
public IQueryable<ClientModel> Get()
{
var model = ...
return model;
}
[HttpGet]
public ClientModel Get([FromODataUri] int id)
{
return new ClientModel();
}
[HttpDelete]
public void Delete([FromODataUri] int id)
{
}
This query runs well:
http://localhost:59661/odata/ODClient?$filter=id eq 3
But this query doesn't work:
http://localhost:59661/odata/ODClient(3)
It executes first GET query with all items.
The Delete doesn't work either (the request type is DELETE):
http://localhost:59661/odata/ODClient(3)
The error received is:
"No HTTP resource was found that matches the request URI 'http://localhost:59661/odata/ODClient(12)'."

Answer 1

As per question comments, the issue was the way that the default routing conventions assigns a name to parameters. Keys are actually given the default name of "key" and so switching to that worked.
The name can be customized by either creating a custom routing convention that populates the route data table with a "id" value, or by using attribute based routing in which case the parameter name can match the name specified in the path template.