Email Address in Web API GET request

Question

I\'m working on a REST APIs implemented in ASP.NET Web API. One scenario we\'d like to support is to do a GET request of some user information by email address.

Answer 1

Can you try the following and see if it works for you?

GET: /api/v1/users/email?id=your_email%40your_domain.com

This assumes your controller's Get function is something like this: Get(string id), i.e. it takes a parameter called id of type string. If you want it to take, for example, a parameter called "emailAddress", then you would do:

GET: /api/v1/users/email?emailAddress=your_email%40your_domain.com

Note the @ sign is encoded as %40. This also assumes your controller is called EmailController.