Force a ASP.NET MVC 3 action parameter to use value from the URL, not object - asp.net-mvc-3

Question

Consider a model class
public class MyModel
{
public string Id { get; set; }
/* some other properties */
}
And a controller
public class MyController
{
[HttpPut]
public ActionResult Update(string id, MyModel model)
{
/* process */
}
}
The routing is registered as follows:
protected override void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.MapRoute("MyController",
"api/my/{id}",
new { action = "Update", controller = "My"},
new { httpMethod = new HttpMethodConstraint(new[] { "PUT" }) });
}
When using a REST client and sending MyModel serialized as a JSON or XML request to this controller, a null "Id" property of "MyModel", overrides the "id" parameter of the action method, even if you post it to http://api.example.com/api/my/10.
How does one force ASP.NET MVC 3 to populate the "id" property from the URL (in this case "10") and ignore the "Id" property of the "MyModel"?
Note that I'm not using ASP.NET Web API.

Answer 1

Try using attribute [FromUri]. It's in "System.Web.Http". This attribute on action param id indicates it should be bonded using the url request.
using System.Web.Http;//at the top
public class MyController
{
[HttpPut]
public ActionResult Update([FromUri]string id, MyModel model)
{
/* process */
}
}
For MVC3 try to include web-api package(from nuget or manually) to use [FromUri] attribute. IF that is not possible then the only way I can think of getting it is from this.HttpContext.Request.QueryString["id"]
Instead of having id as a action method paramter declare it in action body. May have to change the url query api/my?id=1212. First try using api/my/{id} format.
var id = this.HttpContext.Request.QueryString["id"];