Can you call GET and POST same time from web api controller?

Question

I would like to be able to call GET and POST request from the same url (api/test...), but I am currently getting current context error on the following line of code:

[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Get|HttpVerbs.Post)]
//The name 'HttpVerbs' does not exist in the current context -- error. 

I have added in the MVC namespace, but since my application is web api, its causing the authorize property to fall through when declaring the mvc namespace.

    [Authorize]
    [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Get|HttpVerbs.Post)] // error
    public HttpResponseMessage post([FromUri] Query query)
    {
        if (User.IsInRole("admin"))
        {

            IQueryable<data_qy> Data = null;

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(query.name))
            {
                var ids = query.name.Split(',');

                var dataMatchingTags = db.data_qy.Where(c => ids.Any(id => c.Name.Contains(id)));

                if (Data == null)
                    Data = dataMatchingTags;
                else
                    Data = Data.Union(dataMatchingTags);
            }

            if (Data == null) 
                Data = db.data_qy;

            if (query.endDate != null)
            {
                Data = Data.Where(c => c.UploadDate <= query.endDate);
            }

            if (query.data_qy != null)
            {
                Data = Data.Where(c => c.UploadDate >= query.data_qy);
            }

            Data = Data.OrderByDescending(c => c.UploadDate);

            var data = Data.ToList();

            if (!data.Any())
            {
                var message = string.Format("No data found");
                return Request.CreateErrorResponse(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, message);
            }

            return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK, data);
        }

        return Request.CreateErrorResponse(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, "Access Denied, Please try again.");
    }

}

Any advice would be very much appreciated. Many thanks.

Answer 1

Instead of writing:

    [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Get|HttpVerbs.Post)]

have you tried:

    [AcceptVerbs("GET","POST")]

or, even better:

    [HttpGet]
    [HttpPost]

?

The HttpVerbs class (in namespace System.Web.Mvc) is specific to MVC projects, not Web API.