Nyami - Custom HTTP Verb

There are server reasons you might look to implement a custom HTTP Verb in you ASP.NET application, and thankfully with ASP.NET Core it’s incredibly simple.

Here is a nice simple example of a WEBDAV inspired SEARCH verb, potentially useful if you’re encountering limitations of GET, perhaps because you can't have a GET with body, hitting the URL length limit, or just want to have consistent verb.

public class HttpSearchAttribute : HttpMethodAttribute {

        private static readonly IEnumerable<string> SupportedMethods = new[] { "SEARCH" };

        public HttpSearchAttribute() : base(SupportedMethods) {
        }

        public HttpSearchAttribute(string template) : base(SupportedMethods, template) {
            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(template)) {
                throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(template));
            }
        }
    }

Once you have your custom attribute you can apply this to any controller action and start using your verb.

// SEARCH api/values
[HttpSearch]
public ActionResult&lt;IEnumerable&lt;string&gt;&gt; Search([FromBody] string value) {
    return values.Where(v =&gt; v.Contains(value)).ToList();
}

A fully working, simple example is located over at GitHub