Please provide a test; i don't fully interstage what the patch is trying to accomplish.

This patch is to solve issues like : #3

Just to clarify, #3 is about how the the AbstractRestfulController looks for templates and returns "500 internal server error" for undefined methods rather than returning "405 method not allowed".

Does this fix that?

It will fix the problem with returning of proper template ... . when using rest API controller
You can simple make a test .Clone my fork https://github.com/karborator/zend-mvc ,
create rest api , create controller_map of controller and template path and set 'prefer_route_match_controller' => true at the controller route .
Configure apigility to return proper content negotiation also ...

This way the inject listener will detect what template you want for your API

From comments - #3

" I've ran into this issue many times as well and haven't found a good solution.

One way to recreate this is to extend the AbstractRestfulController and implement the get() action but not the getList() action. Then when you go to the getList route, you get a "template not found" error instead of a "Method Not Allowed" response like any other framework gives.

It doesn't make sense for me to have to create a "module-name/controller-name/get-list.phtml" template for every rest controller I create when I don't even want to implement "getList" functionality. "

Closing in favor of #163, which also incorporates the same commits.