How to define endpoint without web.config or httpModule?

Question

I would like to make a RESTful app of HTTPhandlers without having to define every endpoint by making an entry in the web.config, i'd like the style of attaching attributes to a class constructor eg:

public class obj : IHttpHandler
{
  [WebGet(UriTemplate = "/accounts/{id}")]
  public obj(string id)
  {
     // this is just an eg, it worild normally include caching and 
     // a template system
     String html = File.ReadAllText("/accounts/accounts.htm");
     html.replace("id", id);
     httpcontext.current.response.write(html)
  }
}

instead of

<httpHandlers>
      <clear />
      <add verb="GET" path="/accounts/*" type="MyApp.obj" />
</httphandlers>

The way i'm doing it now i have 100's of endpoints in the web.config :( i'd rather define them in the class. And i don't want to make extra files (.asmx) either. I'd like an app of just .htm files with tokens and .cs files

Thanks!

Answer 1

You could automate the registration of the endpoints and so on, with a custom ServiceHost, which overrides the ApplyConfiguration() method, which then virtualizes the configuration so that it does not have to be in the web.config file.

Here's a starting point. It doesn't do exactly what you want, but it illustrates the concept of virtualizing the configuration.