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Brendan Vogt
Brendan Vogt

Reputation: 26018

Different route configurations going to the same action method

I want to display a list of mountain biking trails per province or per area. A province consists of many areas.

I am trying to display the following 2 URLs:

I have the following route configuration (in this order):

routes.MapRoute(
    name: "ProvinceDefault",
    url: "{seoProvinceName}-trails",
    defaults: new { controller = "Province", action = "Index" },
    namespaces: new[] { "MyProject.WebUI.Controllers" }
);

routes.MapRoute(
    name: "AreaDefault",
    url: "{seoAreaName}-trails",
    defaults: new { controller = "Area", action = "Index" },
    namespaces: new[] { "MyProject.WebUI.Controllers" }
);

This is how I create the links in the view:

<a href="@Url.RouteUrl("AreaDefault", new { seoAreaName = trail.Area.SeoName })">@trail.Area.Name</a>,
<a href="@Url.RouteUrl("ProvinceDefault", new { seoProvinceName = trail.Area.Province.SeoName })">@trail.Area.Province.Name</a>

The links display correctly but both are redirected to the province controller's Index method. I changed the 2 route configurations around but then they both go to the Index method of the area controller.

I want www.mywebsite.com/paarl-trails to go to the Index method of the area controller and I want www.mywebsite.com/western-cape-trails to go to the Index method of the province controller.

How do I get this right?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 179

Answers (2)

Francisco Goldenstein
Francisco Goldenstein

Reputation: 13767

I agree with the previous answer because ASP.NET MVC routing engine has no way to differentiate both routes. What you can do is add the area name before the SEOProvinceName. That way, routes would like this:

  • www.mywebsite.com/paarl-area-trails (area trails)
  • www.mywebsite.com/paarl-area/western-cape-province-trails (province trails with the area)

In order to make this work, the routes should be something like this:

routes.MapRoute(
    name: "ProvinceDefault",
    url: "{seoAreaName}/{seoProvinceName}-province-trails",
    defaults: new { controller = "Province", action = "Index" },
    namespaces: new[] { "MyProject.WebUI.Controllers" }
);

routes.MapRoute(
    name: "AreaDefault",
    url: "{seoAreaName}-area-trails",
    defaults: new { controller = "Area", action = "Index" },
    namespaces: new[] { "MyProject.WebUI.Controllers" }
);

I hope it helps.

Upvotes: 1

Radu Porumb
Radu Porumb

Reputation: 785

MVC Routing doesn't work that way. When an URL is requested from the server, the routing engine picks the first route that matches the URL, in the order you've defined them. The routing system can't differentiate between the two routes you've defined because to it they look the same: something followed by -trails.

You would have to change the URLs and their routes to get the routing engine to handle them correctly, something like this:

URLs:

  • www.mywebsite.com/paarl-area-trails (area trails)
  • www.mywebsite.com/western-cape-province-trails (province trails)

Routes:

routes.MapRoute(
    name: "ProvinceDefault",
    url: "{seoProvinceName}-province-trails",
    defaults: new { controller = "Province", action = "Index" },
    namespaces: new[] { "MyProject.WebUI.Controllers" }
);

routes.MapRoute(
    name: "AreaDefault",
    url: "{seoAreaName}-area-trails",
    defaults: new { controller = "Area", action = "Index" },
    namespaces: new[] { "MyProject.WebUI.Controllers" }
);

Upvotes: 0

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