Optional query string parameters in URITemplate in WCF?

Note: This question is out of date, please see the other answers.

This does not appear to be supported.

However, Microsoft has been made aware of this issue and there is a work-around:

You can get the desired effect by omitting the Query string from the UriTemplate on your WebGet or WebInvoke attribute, and using WebOperationContext.Current.IncomingRequest.UriTemplateMatch.QueryParameters from within your handlers to inspect, set defaults, etc. on the query parameters.

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/451296/

According to this answer this is fixed in .NET 4.0. Failing to supply the query string parameter seems to result in its being given the default value for the type.

Check this blog post out. Makes sense to me, and comes with a class to parse out the query string parameters.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rjacobs/archive/2009/02/10/ambiguous-uritemplates-query-parameters-and-integration-testing.aspx

Basically don't define the query string parameters in the UriTemplate so it matches with/without the parameters, and use the sample class to retrieve them if they're there in the method implementation.