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Wanabrutbeer
Wanabrutbeer

Reputation: 697

MVC6 Routing Issue

I'm new to MVC coding, and have been at this issue for a couple days now. I'm having trouble setting up multiple routing schemes, and having them work as intended. Here is what I've got.

Framework

  1. Products/Info.cshtml
  2. Products/Edit.cshtml

Model

  1. ProductCategory.Id
  2. ProductCategory.CategoryName

What I'm wanting to do is be able to have 2 different routing schemes in place

  1. Products/Edit/Id
  2. Products/Info/CategoryName

So here is how I'm structuring the tags in the documents

  1. For Products/Edit/Id

    < a asp-controller="Products" asp-action="Edit" asp-route-id="@item.Id">Edit< /a>

  2. For Products/Info/CategoryName

    < a asp-controller="Products" asp-action="Info" asp-route-category="@item.CategoryName">@item.CategoryName< /a>

So the thing is, this will actually work, functionally, but my hyperlinks for the Products/Info/CategoryName get rendered as query strings rather than the more user friendly version, for instance one category is "Fireplaces", so my links for Info become

Products/Info?category=Fireplaces

instead of what I'm wanting

Products/Info/Fireplaces

How can I configure my routes so that the Controller/Action/Parameter call works for both? I've already tried adding specific routes to app.UseMvc(), and again they work functionally, but the Info links still render out as query strings.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 45

Answers (1)

Wanabrutbeer
Wanabrutbeer

Reputation: 697

Ok, finally got to the bottom of it. Rather than trying to define routes the old way, with app.UseMvc(), I was able to use the new DataAnnotations in the Controller class to define the route, which resulted in creating user friendly links like I wanted, rather than the query string links. So for my Info() method in my controller class, I changed to look like

[HttpGet]
[ActionName("Info")]
[Route("Products/Info/{category}")]
public IActionResult Info(string category)
{
   .....
   return View(productCategory);
}

Upvotes: 1

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