Reputation: 1314
I'm currently playing around with areas and routing within them. What I'm trying to achieve is to be able to have a URL that looks like this;
PracticeAdmin/Practice/[Practice Name]
which I would then be able to add things like Edit and Delete to the end of.
I have achieved this in the past when not working with areas by adding this annotation to the action
[Route("PracticeAdmin/Practices/{practiceName}")]
public ActionResult Details(string practiceName)
this would produce the URLs that I would like. The problem I am having is that when I am trying to do this when using areas I get links that look like this;
PracticeAdmin/Practices?practiceName=Practice1
which is not what I am looking for.
The code that I am using to try and produce this with is
using System.Web.Mvc;
namespace TrainingPortal.Areas.PracticeAdmin
{
public class PracticeAdminAreaRegistration : AreaRegistration
{
public override string AreaName
{
get
{
return "PracticeAdmin";
}
}
public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context)
{
context.MapRoute(
"PracticeAdmin_default",
"PracticeAdmin/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
new { action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
new[] { "TrainingPortal.Areas.PracticeAdmin.Controllers" }
);
}
}
}
namespace TrainingPortal
{
public class RouteConfig
{
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapMvcAttributeRoutes();
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
namespaces: new[] { "TrainingPortal.Controllers" }
);
}
}
}
I have called MapMvcAttributeRoutes here which I believe should mean that the routes are registered even within areas. I have also tried putting the necessary code within PracticeAdminAreaRegistration to do the same thing with no effect.
namespace TrainingPortal.Areas.PracticeAdmin.Controllers
{
public partial class PracticesController : Controller
{
private TpContext db = new TpContext();
// GET: PracticeAdmin/Practices
public virtual ActionResult Index()
{
return View(db.Practices.ToList());
}
[Route("PracticeAdmin/Practice/{practiceName}")]
public virtual ActionResult Details(string practiceName)
{
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(practiceName))
{
return new HttpStatusCodeResult(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest);
}
Practice practice = db.Practices.FirstOrDefault(m => m.PracticeName.ToLower() == practiceName);
if (practice == null)
{
return HttpNotFound();
}
return View(practice);
}
...
Obviously it carries on with other methods but they all follow the same approach as this one.
@Html.ActionLink("Delete", MVC.PracticeAdmin.Practices.Delete(item.PracticeName))
@Html.ActionLink("Delete2", "Delete", new { practiceName = item.PracticeName })
Within PracticeAdminArea/Views/Practices/Index.cshtml I have tried using both T4MVC and the normal ActionLink approach which generate exactly the same link (unsurprisingly).
I have no idea why the Routes I have specified don't appear when trying to create an ActionLink in an area, so I was wondering whether anyone is able to point me in the direction of how I would be able to fix this and get the URL to look how I would like it to?
Upvotes: 3
Views: 1709
Reputation: 1314
After a bit of playing around I managed to get it working. The way that I ended up fixing it was by calling AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas()
from the RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes()
after having called MapMvcAttributeRoutes()
public class RouteConfig
{
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapMvcAttributeRoutes();
AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
namespaces: new[] { "TrainingPortal.Controllers" }
);
}
}
As you're not allowed to call this method twice (or ASP.NET gets rather upset with you having registered the same route names twice) I removed the call to AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas()
from Global.asax leaving it looking like this;
public class MvcApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication
{
protected void Application_Start()
{
GlobalConfiguration.Configure(WebApiConfig.Register);
FilterConfig.RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
BundleConfig.RegisterBundles(BundleTable.Bundles);
}
}
Unfortunately this alone didn't solve the problem, I also had to make a couple modifications to the Controller as well. The modifications were to add the RoutePrefix
and RouteArea
attributes to the Controller like this;
[RouteArea("PracticeAdmin")]
[RoutePrefix("Practice")]
public partial class PracticesController : Controller
{
This had the added benefit that when specifying the route for a particular action through the Route
attribute you didn't have to specify those parts any more, so originally an action's signature would have looked like this;
// GET: PracticeAdmin/Practices/{practiceName}/Members
[Route("PracticeAdmin/Practices/{practiceName}/Members")]
public virtual ActionResult Members(string practiceName)
{
it would now look like this;
// GET: PracticeAdmin/Practices/{practiceName}/Members
[Route("{practiceName}/Members")]
public virtual ActionResult Members(string practiceName)
{
After making all those changes, the website is behaving as expected.
Upvotes: 5