Given this URL's
http://localhost:51095/Person // This is equivalent to this one Person/Index
http://localhost:51095/Person/Allan
I setup a route config for it as follows :
routes.MapRoute(
"Person",
"Person/{personName}",
new { controller = "Person", action = "Person", personName = UrlParameter.Optional }
)
;
routes.MapRoute(
"Default", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);
First URL should follow the Default route and the second should follow the Person route.
This is not working because the first config seems to catch all these URL's
The first thing I'd do is remove personName = UrlParameter.Optional in the first Route. This would allow only urls that provide a personName value to access this Route. If no value is provided, it should fall through to the default Route.
But you'd want to think about the future with this strategy: if you implement new actions on that Person controller, you'd need to add a new Route for each of them. If you had a new 'Edit' action for example:
routes.MapRoute(
"Person_Edit",
"Person/Edit/{personName}",
new { controller = "Person", action = "Edit" }
)
You'd want to add these new Routes before the first one though - ordering/precedence of Routes is important.
Related
This is related my question which i asked in this link correct me on url routing in mvc
Now i came with another problem, so i thought i will ask it as new question.
Now i have following routes in my global.asax file
routes.MapRoute(
"Custom", // Route name
"{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Authentication", action = "BigClientLogin", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);
and
routes.MapRoute(
"Default", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Authentication", action = "BigClientLogin", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);
Now what happens is when i run my solution the URL i am getting is http://localhost:65423/Login this is what i need for my Login Page that is OK. But when i login in as user i am getting "The resource cannot be found" error.
when i checked it i can see that my URL is now changed to http://localhost:65423/Admin/Dashboard
So i think this causing the issue. So this looks the problem related to my global.asax routing.
Can anyone help me to find out what i did wrong.
You have 2 routes with completely optional segments. The issue is that there is no way for the routing framework to differentiate between them.
The only way you can make it work with your existing routes is to specify them explicitly by name (such as when using #Html.RouteLink or #Html.RouteUrl).
#Html.RouteLink("Custom Link 1", "Custom", new { action = "BigClientLogin" })
#Html.RouteLink("Custom Link 2", "Custom", new { action = "Action2" })
#Html.RouteLink("Home Page", "Default", new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" })
#Html.RouteLink("About", "Default", new { controller = "Home", action = "About" })
Doing it that way will function, but is not normal. Typically, there is only one route configured with all defaults for the controller, action, and id and the rest have some explicitly declared segments and/or constraints (segments being preferable).
routes.MapRoute(
"Custom", // Route name
"Custom/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Authentication", action = "BigClientLogin", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);
routes.MapRoute(
"Default", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Authentication", action = "BigClientLogin", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);
The first route will now only match when the URL starts with /Custom/. If it does not start with custom, it will match the default route.
The trick is to ensure that the routes are listed in the right order and that they only match the URL in specific cases, letting them pass on to the next route in the list if the case is not correct.
It happens because of 2 things.
1st the sequence of Your route
2nd your defaults
So if you end up on 'admin/dashboard' that's not a default, guess you've just put it in your studio to start there?
To get to http://localhost:65423/Login you'll need an action on Your AuthenticationController called 'Login' but it looks like the one You have configured is 'BicClientLogin' so You won't be taken to login unless you specify it, and at that time it has to exist.
To Help You further we need to know what controllers You have and what actions there exists, plus if security is part of your solution and if in case, what is is set to use.
If I have the following MapRoute:
routes.MapRoute(
"Default", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" } // Parameter defaults
);
I can have an url like:
blabla.com/Home/Index/123
But what kind of MapRoute do I need to create to be able to do this:
blabla.com/Home/123 or blabla.com/Home/DEADBEEF?
I imagine it involves something along the lines of
"{controller}/{id}/{action}"
Action and id are reversed, and maybe there should be a default action. But how will the MapRoute know which controller should be treated like this?
You probably need something along these lines.
routes.MapRoute(
name: "DefaultRoute",
url: "Home/{action}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" },
constraints: new { action = "[A-Za-z]*" }
);
or without an action
routes.MapRoute(
name: "DefaultRoute",
url: "Home/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" },
constraints: new { id = "[A-Za-z]*" }
);
You will need to make sure that the route name is different than any other routes you have setup and pay attention to the ordering of the routes as other routes that are similar can override each other. In this case make sure you would probably want this before the default route but be aware that it will override it.
As for the not having controller or even the action you can set defaults and do not need them within the route.
As for constraints you can simply add the constraints parameter to the route to set a regular expression for a certain attribute as shown above.
EDIT:
Here are some useful links for more info on routing if you need it.
http://www.dotnet-tricks.com/Tutorial/mvc/HXHK010113-Routing-in-Asp.Net-MVC-with-example.html
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/12/03/asp-net-mvc-framework-part-2-url-routing.aspx
Advanced ASP Routing tutorials and examples
You can add a route like this:
routes.MapRoute(
"CustomRoute",
"Home/{id}",
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" });
Make sure you place it above the default route. However this route will block all the other actions in HomeController. Since we don't have a constraint on id parameter, the framework can't possibly know if you are referring to an action or an id in your URL. Since this route comes first, it will map it to id parameter.
I am trying to write a rule to map a URL but so for I did not get the results I want. I have this rule so far:
routes.MapRoute(
"Search", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{product}/{page}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Search", product = UrlParameter.Optional, page = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);
using this I can achieve this result so far:
localhost:8493/home/search/myproduct
localhost:8493/home/search/myproduct/2
but i want to do something like this:
localhost:8493/myproduct
so this will route to home/search/myproduct
I have tried the following but it didn't work:
routes.MapRoute(
"DirectSearch", // Route name
"{product}/{page}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Search", } // Parameter defaults
);
Is there a way to do this?
Add:
So Here i added the specific route to map to another action but it doesn't work:
routes.MapRoute(
"Tuna",
"{controller}/{action}/{id}",
new { controller = "Home", action = "Tuna", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
You're close I think. This should work;
routes.MapRoute(
"Search", // Route name
"{product}/{page}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Search", product = UrlParameter.Optional, page = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);
Just remember that the framework will read the route data from top to bottom and use the first one it finds that matches. So make sure the more specific routes are listed before the more general ones
Edit
Here's a link to a discussion on custom routing
I need to access a parameter without name.
Ex: I have a controller test, I want to get "data" in mysite.com/test/data. Without calling the action data.
I know how to do that passing it though Index action.
public ActionResult Index(string id)
That way I'd only need to type mysite.com/test/Index/data to get "data", but I don't want to have to type Index.
Does anyone know how to do it?
EDIT:
Thanks a lot to #andyc!
AndyC I used what you said and created a test. It worked =D
Now I can type mysite.com/something and if something is not an controller it redirects to my profile page.
This is what is working for me
routes.MapRoute(
"Profile",
"{id}",
new { Controller = "Profile", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
routes.MapRoute(
"Default", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);
Setup a custom route
In your global.asax file, put (Inside the RegisterRoutes method):
routes.MapRoute(
"MyShortRoute",
"view/{id}",
new { Controller = "test", action = "Index" }
);
The first parameter is a name, the second is the URL format and the last parameter is the default values (in this case if you leave id empty it'll default to id 0.
Notice that I don't use test/{id} as this would also match test/Edit, where edit is an action that you do not want passed as a parameter (I can't think of another way to avoid this, especially if you're using strings instead of ints for your parameters).
Remember to order your routes appropriately in your global.asax file. Put more specific routes before less specific routes. When the system is searching for a route to take, it does not attempt to find the most specific match but instead it starts from the top, and uses the first match it finds.
Therefore, this is bad:
routes.MapRoute(
"Default",
"{controller}/{action}/{id}",
new { controller = "test", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
routes.MapRoute(
"Specific",
"test/{id}",
new { controller = "test", action = "Index", id = 0 }
);
In this example, if you browse to test/somevalue it will match the FIRST entry, which is not what you want, giving you the testcontroller and the somevalue action.
(As your adding a more specific route, you will want it near the top, and definitely before your default).
How do I generate friendly URLs within the ASP.NET MVC Framework? For example, we've got a URL that looks like this:
http://site/catalogue/BrowseByStyleLevel/1
The 1 is Id of the study level (Higher in this case) to browse, but I'l like to reformat the URL in the same way StackOverflow does it.
For example, these two URLs will take you to the same place:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/119323/nested-for-loops-in-different-languages
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/119323/
EDIT: The friendly part of the url is referred to as a slug.
There are two steps to solve this problem. First, create a new route or change the default route to accept an additional parameter:
routes.MapRoute( "Default", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{id}/{ignoreThisBit}",
new { controller = "Home",
action = "Index",
id = "",
ignoreThisBit = ""} // Parameter defaults )
Now you can type whatever you want to at the end of your URI and the application will ignore it.
When you render the links, you need to add the "friendly" text:
<%= Html.ActionLink("Link text", "ActionName", "ControllerName",
new { id = 1234, ignoreThisBit="friendly-text-here" });
This is how I have implemented the slug URL on my application.
Note: The default Maproute should not be changed and also the routes are processed in the order in which they're added to the route list.
routes.MapRoute(
"Default", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home",
action = "Index",
id = UrlParameter.Optional
} // Parameter defaults
);
routes.MapRoute("Place", "{controller}/{action}/{id}/{slug}", new { controller = "Place", action = "Details", id = UrlParameter.Optional,slug="" });
you have a route on the global.asax
routes.MapRoute(
"Default", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = ""}
// Parameter defaults )
you can define your own route like :
controller is the cs class inside the the controllers folder.
you can define your id - with the name you choose.
the system will pass the value to your actionResult method.
you can read more about this step here : http://www.asp.net/learn/mvc/tutorial-05-cs.aspx