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Manjay_TBAG
Manjay_TBAG

Reputation: 2245

Redirection from MVC area redirects me to top level action?

I have following project structure. Where I have two Home and Account controller one inside Test Area and one at route level project. Now after login from area I want to redirect area's Home Index But it redirects me to route level Home Index.

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Test Area Registration MapRoute 

public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context)
        {
            context.MapRoute(
                "Test_default",
                "Test/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
                new { controller = "Account", action = "Login", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
                namespaces: new[] { "MVCAreaSample.Areas.Test.Controllers" }
            );
        }

Base level maproute 

routes.MapRoute(
                name: "Default",
                url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
                defaults: new { controller = "Account", action = "Login", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
                namespaces: new[] { "MVCAreaSample.Controllers" }
            );

Area Redirection action method

[HttpPost]
        public ActionResult Login(TestModel test)
        {
            var candidateContext = "LoginContext";


            FormsAuthenticationTicket authTicket = new FormsAuthenticationTicket(2, candidateContext, DateTime.Now, DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(60), true, "Manjay");
            string encryptedTicket = FormsAuthentication.Encrypt(authTicket);

            HttpCookie authCookie = new HttpCookie(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName, encryptedTicket);

            //Check required for code contracts.
            if (System.Web.HttpContext.Current != null)
            {
                System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.Cookies.Add(authCookie);

                if (System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Session != null)
                    System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Session["LoginContext"] = candidateContext;
            }


            return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");
        }

I tried giving area name in route. It works in this case. But suppose I have proper authenication logic in both level than incase of

RedirectToAction("Index", "Home", new { area = "Test" });

It will give me login page of base level.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2370

Answers (1)

hutchonoid
hutchonoid

Reputation: 33305

You simply need to determine the existing area route and pass it across as a parameter in your redirect as follows:

var currentArea = RouteData.DataTokens["area"];
return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home", new { area = currentArea });

In order to go back up a level you simply specify a blank string for the area:

return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home", new { area = "" });

Upvotes: 4

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