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Jack Ryan
Jack Ryan

Reputation: 8472

File path as MVC route argument

Part of my application maps resources stored in a number of locations onto web URLs like this:

http://servername/files/path/to/my/resource/

The resources location is modelled after file paths and as a result there can be an unlimited level of nesting. Is it possible to construct an MVC route that matches this so that I get the path in its entirety passed into my controller? Either as a single string or possibly as an params style array of strings.

I guess this requires a match on the files keyword, followed by some sort of wildcard. Though I have no idea if MVC supports this.

Upvotes: 18

Views: 8160

Answers (2)

Eilon
Eilon

Reputation: 25704

For more information on ASP.NET's Routing feature, please see MSDN:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc668201.aspx

And for the "catch-all" parameters you want to use, see the section under "Handling a Variable Number of Segments".

Upvotes: 4

Garry Shutler
Garry Shutler

Reputation: 32698

A route like

"Files/{*path}"

will get the path as a single string. The * designates it as a wildcard mapping and it will consume the whole URL after "Files/".

Upvotes: 29

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