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GibboK
GibboK

Reputation: 73928

How to Hide an ID from an URL

net 4 and c# with Routing.

I would like to know how to pass a value in a DataToken from GetRouteUrl (or another ways).

My aim is to crete a Url like "mysite.com/category-title" and passing (hiding from the URL the categoryId) but in the destination page I would like retrieve the hidden categoryId for filtering.

At the moment I try to accomplish this using DataTokens, without result.

My questions:

Thanks for your time on this.

<asp:HyperLink runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Title") %>' NavigateUrl='<%# GetRouteUrl( new { Title = Eval("Title") }) %>'></asp:HyperLink>

   public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
    {
            // Ex: mysite.com/category-title/
        routes.MapRouteCategoryView("myRouteName", "{Title}");
    }

I would

public static void MapRouteCategoryView(this RouteCollection routes, string name, string url)
        {
            // Page Handler map filter to physical path.
            PageRouteHandler handler = new PageRouteHandler("~/Cms/FrontEndCms/CategoryView.aspx");
            // Create the Route.
            CustomRoute myRoute = new CustomRoute(url, handler);
            // Setting the Route.
            //myRoute.Constraints = new RouteValueDictionary { { "CategoryId", @"\d+" } }; // Only valid Int for Id.
            myRoute.DataTokens = new RouteValueDictionary { { "RouteName", name } };
            // Add the Route to RouteCollection.
            routes.Add(myRoute);
        }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1044

Answers (2)

James Johnson
James Johnson

Reputation: 46047

You could try just encrypting the categoryID in the QueryString.

Upvotes: 1

Craig Hannon
Craig Hannon

Reputation: 4069

If you are using the latest version of IIS you can use the URL Rewrite module.

I have usually done something similar to this by using the URL to get the category (or page in my case) by the querystring value the route maps to and then search the database by the route (or path).

Hope this helps.

Craig

Upvotes: 0

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