Advanced Routing

Question

User1493097378 posted

 Hi people. I need to create a route to catch urls of the form /catalog/4214-notebook-hp-530 where 4214 id de unique id of the product. The problem is that if I use "catalog/{id}-{description}" it doesn't work because of the multiple "-".

 Anybody knows how to map routes like these?

Thanks

Answer 1

User-814438144 posted
What if we declare the id parameter in the controller action as string? I tried with your '4214-notebook-hp-530' and it worked!

1    public void Catelog(string id)
2    {
3       try
4       {
5          string[] parts = id.Split('-');
6          int uniqueId = 0;
7          Int32.TryParse(parts[0], out uniqueId);
8          Response.Write("I got the Unique Id: " + uniqueId);
9       }
10      catch {
11         Response.Write("Invalid ID format");
12      }
13   }

 

Answer 2

User1493097378 posted

 Yes, It's a posibility but I wouldn't like to modify my controller action. I solved using /catalog/4214/notebook-hp-530 and a route like this:

            routes.MapRoute(
                "Catalog",
                "catalog/{id}/{descripcion}",
                new { controller = "Product", action = "View", id = 0 },
                new { id = @"\d+" }
                );

 Thanks

Answer 3

User-1393251038 posted

I recently wrote a new route class which supports more complex patterns than the default one. You can read about it, and download the full source code @ my blog http://thecodejunkie.blogspot.com/2008/11/supporting-complex-route-patterns-with.html