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DownChapel
DownChapel

Reputation: 1384

Repeating a Parameter in a ASP.NET MVC Route

I am trying to write a route that matches the following URL format:

/category1/category2/S/

where the number of categories is unknown, so there could be 1 category or there could be 10 (1..N).

I cannot use a catch all becuase the categories are not at the end of the URL.

I am actually routing to a web form here (using Phil Haack's example http://haacked.com/archive/2008/03/11/using-routing-with-webforms.aspx), but that is beside the point really.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 432

Answers (3)

Robert Koritnik
Robert Koritnik

Reputation: 105009

Exactly what you need(ed)

This is a long time lost shot, but I seem to have exactly what you need. I've written a GreedyRoute class that allows greedy segment anywhere in the URL (at the beginning, in the middle or at the end - which is already supported).

You can read all details on my blog as well as getting the code of this particular class.

The main thing is it supports any of these patterns:

  • {segment}/{segment}/{*segment}
  • {segment}/{*segment}/{segment}
  • {*segment}/{segment}/{segment}

It doesn't support multiple greedy segments though (which is of course possible as well but has some restrictions that should be obeyed in that scenario), but I guess that's a rare example where that could be used.

Upvotes: 0

DownChapel
DownChapel

Reputation: 1384

To be honest, I found the answer here to be more useful: Using the greedy route parameter in the middle of a route definition

The blog post linked to in the question was extremely useful: http://www.thecodejunkie.com/2008/11/supporting-complex-route-patterns-with.html

Upvotes: 1

Marcel Wijnands
Marcel Wijnands

Reputation: 1

I think it's impossible but you could try work around it using this route:

{categories}/S

Then split the categories using the '/' character yourself.

I made a site where I just fixed it to 1-3 categories by registering 3 routes, but I had to work around a lot of things and wasn't really happy with it afterwards.

EDIT: Using S/{*categories} will catch the categories. You can only use it at the end of the URL.

Upvotes: 0

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