WCF 3.5 running SOAP and REST services side by side in IIS - wcf

Question

I know that similar question was asked here :
Running SOAP and RESTful on the same URL
Hosting WCF soap and rest endpoints side by side
but didn't find an answer to my problem.
I have two custom servicehostfactories that enables Dependency Injection :
public class StructureMapSoapServiceHostFactory : ServiceHostFactory
public class StructureMapRestServiceHostFactory : WebServiceHost2Factory
The implementation details are not important here.
Then I definied two endpoints in web.config
<system.serviceModel>
<behaviors>
<serviceBehaviors>
<behavior name="mexGet">
<serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" />
<serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false" />
</behavior>
</serviceBehaviors>
<endpointBehaviors>
<behavior name="jsonBehavior">
<webHttp/>
</behavior>
</endpointBehaviors>
</behaviors>
<bindings>
<mexHttpBinding>
<binding name="mexHttpBinding" />
</mexHttpBinding>
</bindings>
<services>
<service behaviorConfiguration="mexGet" name="ServiceImplementation.ServiceCategory">
<endpoint address="rest"
binding="webHttpBinding"
contract="Contracts.ServiceContracts.Mobile.IServiceCategory"
behaviorConfiguration ="jsonBehavior"/>
<endpoint address="soap"
binding="basicHttpBinding"
contract="Contracts.ServiceContracts.Mobile.IServiceCategory" />
<endpoint name="mexHttpBinding"
address="mex"
binding="mexHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="mexHttpBinding"
contract="IMetadataExchange" />
</service>
</services>
<serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true" />
</system.serviceModel>
Then I created two .svc files for each custom host factories :
ServiceCategoryRest.svc
ServiceCategorySoap.svc
I don't like it. What I would like to do is to have URL in that style :
REST : http://server:port/rest/categories/{id} which mapps to the implementation of my ServiceCategory.GetCategory(int id)
SOAP : http://server:port/soap/GetCategory?id=someId
My questions are. Do i need different svc files to activate host services ? If I need there two .svc files, how can I achieve the URI above ? I'm afraid that I should configure IIS rewriting or something but would like to avoid that.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Thomas

Answer 1

You can achieve what you're looking for with service routes - part of ASP.NET routing, available from ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 on up.
Check out these resources:
RESTful WCF Services with No svc file and no config
Drop the Soap: WCF, REST, and Pretty URIs in .NET 4
making a WCF REST stand-alone service exe from scratch – part 1 of 4, creating the minimal bare service
Using Routes to Compose WCF WebHttp Services
In .NET 3.5 SP1, you need to add some extra infrastructure to your web.config (web routing module etc.) - while in .NET 4, this is all already built in.

Answer 2

After few searches I found out that in fact I don't need two different .svc files and two different ServiceHostFactories.
I kept only the StructureMapRestServiceHostFactory : WebServiceHost2Factory and ServiceCategoryRest.svc which handles well requests in REST mode and call in RPC-SOAP mode.
So if you want to run side by side the REST and the SOAP you can do it only with WebServiceHost2Factory.
If then you want to get rid of the .svc part from the URL, please read the Rick Strahl post west-wind.com/weblog/posts/570695.aspx.