1) Expose the simplified relative path template by cleaning up constraints, optional and catch all tokens from the template.
2) Expose the parameters on the route template as API parameters.
3) Combine parameters from the route and the action descriptor when the parameter doesn't come from the body. #886 will refine this.
4) Expose optionality and constraints for path parameters. Open question: Should we explicitly expose IsCatchAll?
IActionConstraint follows a provider model similar to filters. The
attributes that go on actions/controllers can be simple metadata markers,
the 'real' constraint is provided by a set of configurable providers. In
general the simplest thing to do is to be both an
IActionConstraintMetadata and IActionConstraint, and then the default
provider will take care of you.
IActionConstraint now has stages based on the Order property. Each group
of constraints with the same Order will run together on the set of
actions. This process is repeated for each value of Order until we run out
of actions or run out of constraints.
The IActionConstraint interface is beefier than the equivalent in legacy
MVC. This is to support cooperative coding between sets of constraints
that know about each other. See the changes in the sample, which implement
webapi-style overloading.
jacalvar
sornaks
Ryan Nowak