Versioning Web API actions in ASP.NET MVC 4

Question

I have an ASP.NET MVC 4 app. I want to use the new Web API feature for learning purposes. I want to learn how to expose the same endpoint, but provide different versions of it.

Answer 1

Sebastiaan Dammann has, on his blog, described how he did Web API versioning by writing his own implementation of IHttpControllerSelector and supporting interfaces.

http://damsteen.nl/blog/implementing-versioning-in-asp.net-web-api

He's also put the code on github

https://github.com/Sebazzz/SDammann.WebApi.Versioning

And packaged it in NuGet for us! :)

https://nuget.org/packages/SDammann.WebApi.Versioning

While implementing IHttpControllerSelector is certainly (imho) the Right Way to do Web API versioning, I think it would be ideal if he included the ability to version based on the HTTP Accept header (see http://barelyenough.org/blog/2008/05/versioning-rest-web-services/).

Unfortunately my client side is unable to work with the Accept header, so his RouteVersionedControllerSelector is ideal for me.

Edit: Not sure how I missed it, but there is indeed an AcceptHeaderVersionedControllerSelector that can be used to do versioning the ideal way. I'm currently using it on a new project, but it still has some drawbacks