I'm new to MVC. I'm having trouble trying to accomplish having a route setup in the following manner:
System/{systemName}/{action} Where systemName is dynamic and does not have a "static" method that it calls. i.e.
http://sitename.com/Systems/LivingRoom/View
I want the above URL to call a method such as,
public void RouteSystem(string systemName, string action) { // perform redirection here. } Anyone know how to accomplish this?
routes.MapRoute( "Systems_Default", "System/{systemName}/{action}", new { controller="System", action = "RouteSystem", systemName="" } ); Should route your request as you specified.
Note that with the above route, your Url should be:
http://sitename.com/System/LivingRoom/View I had a similar problem. I used the following route.
routes.MapRoute( "BlogSpecific", // Route name "{blogSubFolder}/{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters new { blogSubFolder = "", controller = "", action = "", id = "" } // Parameter defaults ); blogSubFolder just gets passed to my controller actions as a parameter. Controller and action all work just as they usually do. Just swap out blogSubfolder with your "System" paramter and that will hopefully work for you.
It looks like you intend to route to a controller based on the system name. If that is correct then you would simply need this:
routes.MapRoute("Systems", "Systems/{controller}/{action}" new{controller = "YourDEFAULTController", action = "YourDEFAULTAction"}); Please note that the third line only sets the default values specified if they are NOT included in the url.
Given the route above, MVC would route this:
http://sitename.com/Systems/LivingRoom/View
to the View action method on the LivingRoom controller. However this:
http://sitename.com/Systems/LivingRoom
would route to the YourDEFAULTAction method on the LivingRoom controller.
