Using custom Data Service Providers, do I have any control over URLs that are returned?

Question

I'm implementing several custom Data Service Providers in WCF Data Services:

• IDataServiceMetadataProvider
• IDataServiceQueryProvider
• IDataServiceUpdateProvider

To illustrate the point of my question consider this made-up example:

I have a resource called "Employee," which can be addressed in the following ways:

MyDataService.svc/Employees(1)

or

MyDataService.svc/Employees?$filter=FirstName eq 'John'

The results that are returned automatically include URLs for each resource, like:

http://localhost:1337/MyDataService.svc/Employees(5), and so on.

Is it possible to, instead, have Data Services return People(5) instead of Employees(5)?

In short, I need some control over URLs that Data Services generates. Is that possible?

Answer 1

This does not seem possible at this time.