Question

In this question the Answer suggests using an object as the parameter. What URL would I use to access that?
In the OP’s first example, my original approach was to overload the action (not sure if overload is the right word) so I had:

public IEnumerable<NTOrder> Get()...

public IEnumerable<NTOrder> Get(int p)...

public IEnumerable<NTOrder> Get(int p, int q)

not elegant, I know, but if I change it to one object I don’t know how to format the URL…

Old Code

public IEnumerable<NTOrder> Get() {
    //build NTOrderList
    return NTOrderList;
}

New Code

public class FilterView
{
    public int? fID { get; set; }
    public int? fCustomer { get; set; }
    public string fSalesPerson{ get; set; }
}

public IEnumerable<NTOrder> Get(FilterView queryFilter) {
    //build NTOrderList
    List<NTOrder> result = (from order in NTOrderList
                               where (order.OrderID == queryFilter.fID || queryFilter.fID == null)
                                  && (order.CustomerID == queryFilter.fCustomer || queryFilter.fCustomer == null)
                                  && (queryFilter.fSalesPerson == null || order.Salesperson.Equals(queryFilter.fSalesPerson))
                                select order).ToList();

    return result;
}

Answer 1

I found this answer as a possible solution, which basically suggests passing the data as JSON in the url and adding a filter to convert that to a complex object, but as the OP in that post suggests it’s not the most elegant way…anybody have a more elegant solution?