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SnickersAreMyFave
SnickersAreMyFave

Reputation: 5145

Dynamic ASP.NET MVC Routes

I'm confused about MVC routes. Let's say I have this domain: poopoopants.com. I want some standard URLs off the root that go to an "About" page or "Contact" page:

http://poopoopants.com/about
http://poopoopants.com/contact

Now, I'm also going to have an infinite amount of these two routes below, where "[user]" is a variable for the username for a person registered with an account on poopoopants.com, and [file-path] is a URL-sanitize file path that may contain the / character:

http://poopoopants.com/[user]
http://poopoopants.com/[user]/[file-path]

So I'm assuming I'd have one IndexController with an Index action for /, About action for /about, Contact action for /contact, and one UserController with Index action for /[user]/ and File action for /[user]/[file-path].

My question concerns definite the routes in Global.asax.cs. So far I've got:

routes.MapRoute("Index", "/", new { controller = "Index", action = "Index" });
routes.MapRoute("About", "/about", new { controller = "Index", action = "About" });
routes.MapRoute("Contact", "/contact", new { controller = "Index", action = "Contact" });

But what do I specify for the /[user] and /[user]/[file-path] routes, and what are the corresponding method signatures of their actions in UserController?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 681

Answers (1)

mlusiak
mlusiak

Reputation: 1054

I didn't test them, but it should work:

Routes:

routes.MapRoute(
    "User",
    "{username}",
    new { controller = "User", action = "Index" }   
);

routes.MapRoute(
    "File",
    "{username}/{filepath}",
    new { controller = "User", action = "File" }

Method signatures:

public ActionResult Index(string username);
public ActionResult File(string username, string filepath);

Also, you can make your Index controller Route probably in one MapRoute clause.

Usefull tool: http://haacked.com/archive/2008/03/13/url-routing-debugger.aspx

Upvotes: 2

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