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loyalflow
loyalflow

Reputation: 14919

How to loop through all the controllers and ensure the URL is for a controller?

In my Begin Reqeust method in my global.asax.cs, I want to check if the current request is a MVC request, and not a request for a .css file or .js file etc.

Say I have the following controllers:

/User/
/Product/
/Store/
/Checkout/

I want to loop through the names of the controllers, and verify the currently request URL is for an action in the above controllers.

How can I look through the controller names?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 371

Answers (2)

Bobson
Bobson

Reputation: 13706

Based on what you want this for, your best solution will be routes.IgnoreRoute().

See here and here for various examples, but the basic premise is that you want the MVC engine to accept the route, but then it says "I'm not supposed to do anything with this" and lets it go back to IIS to find the actual file.

This means you don't need to try and determine on the fly what controllers you have, which is much easier on your server.

Upvotes: 2

Gabe
Gabe

Reputation: 50503

You could use reflection and get all the controllers from a specified namespace.

using System.Reflection;
private Type[] GetControllersInNamespace(Assembly assembly, string controllernamespace)
{
    return assembly.GetTypes().Where(types => string.Equals(types.Namespace, controllernamespace, StringComparison.Ordinal)).ToArray();
}

Upvotes: 1

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